Read full poem →_Majestic_, for instance, ducked from her bows to her funnel; and I've
helped the _Arizona_, I think she was, to back off an iceberg she met
with one dark night; and I had to run out of the _Paris's_
Dictionary Entry
To move backwards away from something.
In a Sentence
“I tried to back off slowly from the tiger in my path.”
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Poetry examples for “back off”
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