backtrack

backtrack
backtrack (v.) "retrace one's steps," figuratively, by 1896, from literal sense, with reference to hunted foxes, from BACK (Cf. back) (adv.) + TRACK (Cf. track) (v.). Related: Backtracked; backtracking.

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