moved back

Verb

move back (third-person singular simple present moves back, present participle moving back, simple past and past participle moved back)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see move, back.
   • If you are at a zoo, and a monkey climbs up high in the bars and sticks his thing through the bars, you should move away from the monkey cage. Move in an orderly fashion- don't push, don't rush, don't make it like a Who concert in Ohio. Just move back nice and slow and easy, because that monkey may...2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 27:27 from the start, in Penn Radio
2. (US, transitive) To reschedule (something) to a later date or time.
   • The report still hasn't been completed, so the meeting will have to be moved back again.

   Synonyms:

   postpone

   Antonyms:

   move forward, move up