All backtracking synonyms
back·track
B b noun backtracking
- volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- one-eighty — a turn or reversal of 180 degrees.
- retract — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- recantation — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- u-turn — a U -shaped turn made by a vehicle so as to head in the opposite direction from its original course.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.