Wiktionary
vb. 1 (&lit walk back English) 2 (context transitive English) To withdraw or back-pedal on a statement or promise; retract.
Usage examples of "walk back".
It took me perhaps twenty minutes to walk down, fill the three bottles, and walk back, so when I returned to the AT it had been about forty minutes since I had seen Katz.
On the walk back Gus tried to think of some adventure he could describe that would make his friend envious.
Then I walk back over to the bed and fling myself on top of the boy, eliciting a very self-satisfied 'oof' from him.
He could simply walk back into his old life, answer the long distance calls when they came, prepare himself to tell his phenomenal story to Tyler, whose father had now disappeared, and to Susan, whose husband had aged thirty years overnight, and might as well be her own grandfather.
No one replied and Garraty was just considering taking a walk back up to McVries when they came to another intersection and a woman began to scream.
I had to walk back to our rooms, pushing my bike up a gravel trail.
It was impossible for him to follow them, and he could only walk back sadly at mid-day along the same road which he had trodden hopefully in the morning.
She was very amiable during the walk back, and raved much over Edna's appearance in her bathing suit.
The next day, during the walk back, Ruddy took ill with a severe dose of gut infection.
She was able to walk back to the mansion, but begged not to be questioned as to the cause of her fright till the morrow, when she should have quite recovered from its effects.