Definition for Back down:

• move backwards from a certain position; " The bully had to back down"

Synonyms for Back down:

• n.

  •
  • hold back.
  •back down (noun)
  • bow out,
  • chicken out,
  • back up,
  • pull out.

• v.

  •back off (verb)
  • concede,
  • accede,
  • demur,
  • cancel,
  • admit,
  • acquiesce,
  • surrender,
  • submit,
  • go back on,
  • abandon,
  • balk,
  • withdraw,
  • recoil,
  • wimp out,
  • renege,
  • have no fight left,
  • back out,
  • resign.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • cry off,
  • beg off.
  •
  • backtrack.
  •back out
  • weasel out,
  • welsh.
  •chicken out
  • give way.
  •Other relevant words:
  • lonely,
  • substantiate,
  • backpedal,
  • off the beaten path,
  • come to,
  • obscure,
  • backwater,
  • disown,
  • comply with,
  • hem and haw,
  • come around,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • climb down,
  • scruple,
  • falter,
  • stand back,
  • deliberate,
  • about,
  • beat a retreat,
  • hindmost,
  • fear,
  • hover,
  • come round,
  • give place,
  • hesitate,
  • strain,
  • rear,
  • back away,
  • shy,
  • round,
  • rescind,
  • hind,
  • repudiate,
  • think twice about,
  • swallow,
  • resile,
  • retire,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • pause,
  • remote,
  • debate,
  • backwards,
  • fink out,
  • eat crow,
  • Strain at,
  • insular,
  • postern,
  • jib,
  • posterior,
  • deny,
  • think twice,
  • disavow,
  • around,
  • come over,
  • secluded,
  • relents,
  • fall in with,
  • straddle the fence,
  • shy away,
  • crawfish out,
  • disclaim,
  • after,
  • turn tail,
  • draw off,
  • hang back,
  • isolated,
  • run back,
  • draw back,
  • stick at,
  • disengage,
  • revoke,
  • void,
  • renounce,
  • stop to consider,
  • solitary,
  • abjure,
  • rearward,
  • hum and haw,
  • annul,
  • lonesome,
  • stickle,
  • removed,
  • recall,
  • backward,
  • balance,
  • ponder,
  • eat humble pie,
  • outlying.

Antonyms for Back down:

• v.

  • back off
    allow, dispute, dissent, reject, uphold, refuse, fight, permit, advance, go forward.
  • Other antonyms:
    fulfill, keep, comply, satisfy, adhere, honor.

Homophones for Back down:

• backdown, boston, bog down, boughten, begotten, bisection, bastion, bostonian, big time, boxed in, based on, boxed-in, baby's dummy, bus station, best man, basidium.

Hyponym for Back down:

• v.

  • motion
    pull away, withdraw, pull back, move back, draw back, recede, retire, retreat.