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Back down   /bæk daʊn/   Listen
Back down

verb
1.
Move backwards from a certain position.  Synonyms: back off, back up.
2.
Remove oneself from an obligation.  Synonyms: back off, bow out, chicken out, pull out.






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"Back down" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Make him back down till he reaches these first branches. When he gets so far I'll tell you what to do." I put my arm through the coil of rope, and, slinging it snugly over my shoulder, began to climb the pine. It was the work of only a moment to reach the ...
— The Young Forester • Zane Grey

... was obvious he wasn't through yet. He hesitated, and I could see his Adam's apple travel up above the knot of his tie and back down again as he swallowed. The pink flush deepened suddenly into brilliant red and spread all ...
— Sense from Thought Divide • Mark Irvin Clifton

... game for anything. You never saw him back down, did you? Not even—but never mind. That's a thing of the past. In five seconds that little monkey was up on top of the car with the screen cloth and the rope that we always used to hang it from. I called up out of the window for ...
— Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... sure, as you go back down the "old Lime-Kiln road," that the motto of the school will be fulfilled in the life of each of its students: "So enter that daily thou mayst become more thoughtful and more learned. So depart that daily thou mayst become more useful to thyself ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... for a moment, then claiming work still to be done, turned to go back down the knoll. A new thought upon him, he once more came ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory


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