stand back
— phrasal verb with stand uk/stænd/us/stænd/verb stood, stood
B2 to move a short distance away from something or someone:
Please stand back - then all of you will be able to see what I'm doing.
More examples
- Stand back while I light the fire.
- Stand well back from the fireworks.
- Stand back, please, I need a little more space.
- I stood back and made sure the kids didn't go any closer.
- Could you stand back, please, and let the ambulance staff through?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Backwards, sideways and back and forth
- anticlockwise
- aside
- back
- back and forth idiom
- backward
- backwards
- broadside
- counterclockwise
- hither
- hither and thither idiom
- retro
- right/wrong way round idiom
- side
- sideways
- stand
- there
- there and back idiom
- to and fro
- to-ing and fro-ing
- wrong
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