Synonyms for Cop out:

• n.

  •
  • flinch from (doing) something,
  • skip,
  • wriggle out of (doing) something,
  • stay out of,
  • abstain,
  • avoid,
  • shirk,
  • duck out of.
  •
  • pretext,
  • ground,
  • occasion,
  • excuse,
  • motive,
  • motivation,
  • point,
  • in justification of something,
  • reason,
  • cause.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • tergiversation,
  • quibbling routine,
  • evasion,
  • equivocality,
  • fibbing,
  • coverup,
  • deceptiveness,
  • shufflings,
  • runaround,
  • amphibology,
  • dissimulation,
  • double meaning.

• v.

  •abandon (verb)
  • giving the ship,
  • with-draw,
  • give the ship,
  • legged it,
  • flying coop,
  • gives up ship,
  • taking powder,
  • washed hands of,
  • kissing goodbye,
  • taking a powder,
  • flies coop,
  • took a powder,
  • storming out,
  • with draws,
  • kissed goodbye,
  • with-draws,
  • gave up ship,
  • dis-carded,
  • sur rendering,
  • legging it,
  • took powder,
  • legs it,
  • dis continuing,
  • took a walk,
  • flakes out,
  • sur-render,
  • sur renders,
  • flew coop,
  • flying the coop,
  • dis continue,
  • runs out on,
  • gives the ship,
  • flaking out,
  • giving ship,
  • sur-rendering,
  • shipped out,
  • gave ship,
  • gives ship,
  • takes a powder,
  • take powder,
  • took walk,
  • dis-continues,
  • letted go,
  • with drew,
  • takes powder,
  • dis carded,
  • give ship,
  • take walk,
  • ran out on,
  • gave the ship,
  • dis carding,
  • gave up the ship,
  • with-drew,
  • give up ship,
  • dis cards,
  • dis-continuing,
  • sur rendered,
  • flies the coop,
  • dis-cards,
  • dis continues,
  • giving up the ship,
  • sur render,
  • kisses goodbye,
  • washes hands of,
  • taking a walk,
  • with draw,
  • gives up the ship,
  • with drawn,
  • dis-card,
  • dis continued,
  • sur-renders,
  • storms out,
  • with-drawn,
  • dis card,
  • takes walk,
  • giving up ship,
  • dis-continued,
  • sur-rendered,
  • taking walk,
  • washing hands of,
  • with-drawing,
  • fly coop,
  • stormed out,
  • dis-continue,
  • dis-carding,
  • with drawing.
  •abandon, quit (verb)
  • withdraw,
  • back out,
  • renounce,
  • back off,
  • dodge,
  • backpedal,
  • revoke,
  • use pretext,
  • have alibi,
  • back down.
  •apologize (verb)
  • gets down knees,
  • re-tract,
  • excusing oneself,
  • getting down on knees,
  • said one is sorry,
  • gotten down knees,
  • making reparations,
  • asks forgiveness,
  • making with,
  • saying is sorry,
  • makes for,
  • re tracts,
  • asking pardon,
  • offered compensation,
  • making up for,
  • gives satisfaction,
  • admitted guilt,
  • excused oneself,
  • make with,
  • excuses oneself,
  • clearing oneself,
  • gave satisfaction,
  • made up with,
  • saying one is sorry,
  • cleared oneself,
  • getting down knees,
  • making up with,
  • makes with,
  • gotten down on knees,
  • admitting guilt,
  • bowed to,
  • begged pardon,
  • begs pardon,
  • asking forgiveness,
  • offering excuse,
  • get down knees,
  • makes up with,
  • offers compensation,
  • offered excuse,
  • bows to,
  • got down knees,
  • gets down on knees,
  • say is sorry,
  • begging pardon,
  • got down on knees,
  • says is sorry,
  • made with,
  • makes up for,
  • makes reparations,
  • offers excuse,
  • said is sorry,
  • bowing to,
  • offering compensation,
  • asked forgiveness,
  • asked pardon,
  • gat down knees,
  • re tract,
  • says one is sorry,
  • asks pardon,
  • cop plea,
  • admits guilt,
  • clears oneself,
  • re-tracts,
  • gat down on knees.
  •back down (verb)
  • Re sign,
  • hath no fight left,
  • re-coil,
  • gave ground,
  • re-canting,
  • has no fight left,
  • hast no fight left,
  • wimped out,
  • re-treated,
  • re coiling,
  • begs off,
  • re-canted,
  • re-treat,
  • re coils,
  • re canting,
  • re treating,
  • re coiled,
  • re-treating,
  • withdrawing from agreement or statement,
  • re signing,
  • re-sign,
  • re treated,
  • hadst no fight left,
  • re signs,
  • had no fight left,
  • withdrawing from agreement statement,
  • re-coiled,
  • withdraws from agreement or statement,
  • re treats,
  • wimps out,
  • re coil,
  • withdraw from agreement statement,
  • re-signed,
  • re-coiling,
  • re-coils,
  • re canted,
  • wimping out,
  • haddest no fight left,
  • begged off,
  • re signed,
  • withdrew from agreement or statement,
  • having no fight left,
  • caved in,
  • re-signs,
  • withdraws from agreement statement,
  • begging off,
  • re treat,
  • withdrew from agreement statement,
  • re-treats,
  • re-signing.
  •back out (verb)
  • throws the towel,
  • gotten cold feet,
  • throwing towel,
  • gets cold feet,
  • throw the towel,
  • blew off,
  • throwing in towel,
  • throw towel,
  • throws in towel,
  • threw the towel,
  • gat cold feet,
  • threw in the towel,
  • wiggling out,
  • weasels out,
  • throws towel,
  • throwing the towel,
  • throws in the towel,
  • weaseling out,
  • got cold feet,
  • wormed out,
  • wiggled out,
  • shies from,
  • blowing off,
  • wiggles out,
  • worming out,
  • shying from,
  • getting cold feet,
  • blows it off,
  • shied from,
  • threw towel,
  • blew it off,
  • blows off,
  • blowing it off,
  • threw in towel,
  • worms out,
  • weaseled out.
  •bolt (verb)
  • leaving holding the bag,
  • leaving high and dry,
  • ran like scared rabbit,
  • leaves high dry,
  • running like scared rabbit,
  • making tracks,
  • stepping on it,
  • stepped it,
  • leaved flat,
  • leaved high dry,
  • left high and dry,
  • leave high dry,
  • leave holding bag,
  • leaving holding bag,
  • leave the lurch,
  • leaves flat,
  • makes a break for it,
  • leaving high dry,
  • make break for it,
  • made a break for it,
  • steps on it,
  • leaving flat,
  • left holding bag,
  • takes flight,
  • makes break for it,
  • stepping it,
  • left holding the bag,
  • leaved high and dry,
  • makes tracks,
  • leaved holding bag,
  • made tracks,
  • runs like scared rabbit,
  • leave lurch,
  • made break for it,
  • making break for it,
  • left high dry,
  • leaves holding the bag,
  • steps it,
  • stepped on it,
  • making a break for it,
  • leaves holding bag,
  • leaves high and dry,
  • leaved holding the bag,
  • left flat.
  •chicken out (verb)
  • haddest no stomach for,
  • hath no stomach for,
  • hadst no stomach for,
  • funked out,
  • gives way,
  • turns yellow,
  • hast no stomach for,
  • funks out,
  • has no stomach for,
  • turned yellow,
  • had no stomach for,
  • funking out,
  • having no stomach for.
  •cognition (verb)
  • opt out,
  • cop out.
  •compromise (verb)
  • dis crediting,
  • end angering,
  • dis-crediting,
  • dis-credits,
  • end-anger,
  • dis honors,
  • end-angering,
  • dis honoring,
  • dis-credit,
  • dis-honored,
  • end angered,
  • ex pose,
  • end-angers,
  • ex-posing,
  • ex posed,
  • end-angered,
  • ex-pose,
  • dis-credited,
  • dis honor,
  • end angers,
  • dis credited,
  • puts under suspicion,
  • putting under suspicion,
  • dis-honor,
  • ex-posed,
  • dis credits,
  • dis credit,
  • dis-honoring,
  • end anger,
  • dis honored,
  • dis-honors.
  •desert (verb)
  • de-parted,
  • de parts,
  • takes a hike,
  • plays truant,
  • de camped,
  • de parted,
  • de camp,
  • sneaking off,
  • violated oath,
  • de-camp,
  • de part,
  • de sert,
  • de-camps,
  • be-aching,
  • went west,
  • sneaked off,
  • be-trays,
  • goes west,
  • goes over hill,
  • be ached,
  • violates oath,
  • de-camped,
  • de-sert,
  • de parting,
  • goes over the hill,
  • going over the hill,
  • going over hill,
  • de-parts,
  • take hike,
  • playing truant,
  • de camps,
  • de-part,
  • takes hike,
  • be-tray,
  • going west,
  • de-camping,
  • sneaks off,
  • be tray,
  • taking a hike,
  • took hike,
  • taking hike,
  • de-parting,
  • crawls out,
  • went awol,
  • crawled out,
  • leaves stranded,
  • go over hill,
  • leaving stranded,
  • violating oath,
  • crawling out,
  • played truant,
  • leaved stranded,
  • goes awol,
  • be aching,
  • went over the hill,
  • be trays,
  • went over hill,
  • de camping,
  • snuck off,
  • took a hike,
  • be-ached.
  •elude (verb)
  • giving wide berth to,
  • gat away from,
  • out-wits,
  • stays shy of,
  • is beyond someone,
  • out runs,
  • give slip,
  • runs around,
  • giving the slip,
  • gotten away from,
  • staid shy of,
  • out-run,
  • was beyond someone,
  • being beyond someone,
  • gat around,
  • gave slip,
  • hem haw,
  • passes up,
  • steered clear of,
  • gave runaround,
  • out witted,
  • ran around,
  • out-runs,
  • got around,
  • gives the slip,
  • gives the runaround,
  • gives slip,
  • running around,
  • gave the slip,
  • gives runaround,
  • gives wide berth to,
  • wast beyond someone,
  • give runaround,
  • are beyond someone,
  • out-running,
  • staying shy of,
  • giving the runaround,
  • out run,
  • out-witting,
  • out-wit,
  • art beyond someone,
  • beating around bush,
  • giving slip,
  • stayed shy of,
  • wert beyond someone,
  • gave wide berth to,
  • beats around the bush,
  • beats around bush,
  • out wits,
  • giving runaround,
  • out witting,
  • am beyond someone,
  • gets around,
  • steers clear of,
  • out-witted,
  • out running,
  • were beyond someone,
  • not touched,
  • not touches,
  • gotten around,
  • gave the runaround,
  • passing up.
  •equivocate (verb)
  • gave run around,
  • double-talked,
  • clouded the issue,
  • doubletalked,
  • cloud issue,
  • telling white lie,
  • beg question,
  • double talking,
  • sits on fence,
  • sat fence,
  • begged the question,
  • sat on fence,
  • doubletalking,
  • sate on the fence,
  • sat the fence,
  • clouded issue,
  • doubletalk,
  • sitting on the fence,
  • clouds the issue,
  • sate fence,
  • sits fence,
  • sitting fence,
  • flipflopping,
  • giving run around,
  • tells white lie,
  • mincing words,
  • clouds issue,
  • sate the fence,
  • flip flopped,
  • flip flop,
  • begging question,
  • sits on the fence,
  • sate on fence,
  • sits the fence,
  • tergiversed,
  • sit the fence,
  • flip flopping,
  • begs the question,
  • told white lie,
  • blow hot cold,
  • clouding the issue,
  • flip-flopped,
  • minces words,
  • sitting on fence,
  • sitting the fence,
  • gives run around,
  • begged question,
  • tergiverses,
  • begs question,
  • double talked,
  • sat on the fence,
  • clouding issue,
  • double-talking,
  • flipflopped,
  • sit fence,
  • tergiversing.
  •evade (verb)
  • leading merry chase,
  • leading on a merry chase,
  • slipping out,
  • by pass,
  • pre tending,
  • slips out,
  • lead merry chase,
  • led merry chase,
  • keeps distance,
  • leading a merry chase,
  • leads a merry chase,
  • laying low,
  • de cline,
  • sneaks away,
  • by passes,
  • de-clines,
  • de-cline,
  • pre tend,
  • pre tends,
  • fended off,
  • leads merry chase,
  • led a merry chase,
  • sneaking away,
  • led on a merry chase,
  • lays low,
  • kept distance,
  • led on merry chase,
  • sneaked away,
  • lead a merry chase,
  • lead on merry chase,
  • pre-tending,
  • keeping distance,
  • de clines,
  • by passing,
  • by passed,
  • pre-tends,
  • slipped out,
  • leads on a merry chase,
  • leads on merry chase,
  • slipt out,
  • snuck away,
  • leading on merry chase,
  • pre-tended.
  •hedge (verb)
  • giving the run around,
  • were noncommittal,
  • gave the run around,
  • was noncommittal,
  • gives the run around,
  • wast noncommittal,
  • art noncommittal,
  • wert noncommittal,
  • shilly shally,
  • am noncommittal,
  • being noncommittal,
  • is noncommittal.
  •pass the buck (verb)
  • re laying,
  • re-lays,
  • slid out of,
  • gets out of,
  • re-lay,
  • re laid,
  • gat out of,
  • slides out of,
  • getting out of,
  • re-laid,
  • slidden out of,
  • re lays,
  • pass buck,
  • re lay,
  • sliding out of,
  • gotten out of.
  •rationalize (verb)
  • makes allowance,
  • de-liberates,
  • de-liberate,
  • making allowance,
  • re-solved,
  • explaining away,
  • applying logic,
  • de liberate,
  • de-liberated,
  • applied logic,
  • re solves,
  • giving alibi,
  • de liberated,
  • made allowance,
  • explains away,
  • re solve,
  • reasoned out,
  • re-solve,
  • de liberates,
  • applies logic,
  • gave alibi,
  • reasons out,
  • re-solves,
  • thinks through,
  • gives alibi,
  • de liberating,
  • reasoning out,
  • re-solving,
  • de-liberating,
  • thinking through,
  • explained away,
  • intellectualizes.
  •renege (verb)
  • re verse,
  • brake one promise,
  • breaks one's promise,
  • breaks promise,
  • brake promise,
  • breaking promise,
  • de-faulting,
  • de faulting,
  • breaking ones promise,
  • broke one's promise,
  • de faults,
  • de-faults,
  • de-fault,
  • broke one promise,
  • breaking one promise,
  • breaks one promise,
  • de fault,
  • de faulted,
  • re-versed,
  • breaking one's promise,
  • brake one's promise,
  • broke promise,
  • breaks ones promise,
  • re-verse,
  • brake ones promise,
  • break ones promise,
  • re versing,
  • de-faulted,
  • break one promise,
  • broke ones promise.
  •weasel (verb)
  • worms way out of,
  • dancing around an issue,
  • worm way out of,
  • worms one way out of,
  • dance around issue,
  • worm one way out of,
  • dancing around issue,
  • tap danced,
  • danced around an issue,
  • worms ones way out of,
  • wormed ones way out of,
  • worming one's way out of,
  • dances around issue,
  • wormed one way out of,
  • worming one way out of,
  • worming way out of,
  • worms one's way out of,
  • danced around issue,
  • wormed way out of,
  • dances around an issue,
  • worming ones way out of,
  • wormed one's way out of,
  • worm ones way out of.
  •welsh (verb)
  • pulled a fast one,
  • de-frauds,
  • took to the cleaners,
  • takes to cleaners,
  • took for a ride,
  • takes for a ride,
  • pulling fast one,
  • de-fraud,
  • stiffing,
  • takes for ride,
  • pulled fast one,
  • taking cleaners,
  • took to cleaners,
  • pulling a fast one,
  • took cleaners,
  • take the cleaners,
  • took the cleaners,
  • take cleaners,
  • pulls a fast one,
  • taking to the cleaners,
  • de frauds,
  • taking to cleaners,
  • took for ride,
  • pulls fast one,
  • de fraud,
  • taking the cleaners,
  • takes cleaners,
  • takes to the cleaners,
  • takes the cleaners.

• Other synonyms:

  •abandon
  • kiss goodbye,
  • running out on,
  • give up the ship,
  • Withdrew,
  • take a powder,
  • ship out,
  • flaked out,
  • take a walk,
  • flake out,
  • run out on,
  • storm out,
  • wash hands of,
  • leave,
  • shipping out,
  • takes a walk,
  • fly the coop,
  • ships out,
  • lets go,
  • leg it,
  • flew the coop,
  • let go,
  • letting go.
  •apologize
  • give satisfaction,
  • giving satisfaction,
  • say one is sorry,
  • offer compensation,
  • makes amends,
  • make amends,
  • beg pardon,
  • admit guilt,
  • make for,
  • offer excuse,
  • made amends,
  • made reparations,
  • bow to,
  • making for,
  • get down on knees,
  • made for,
  • making amends,
  • excuse oneself,
  • ask pardon,
  • made up for,
  • make up with,
  • clear oneself,
  • make reparations,
  • ask forgiveness,
  • make up for.
  •back down
  • pulling back,
  • withdraw from agreement or statement,
  • give ground,
  • go back on,
  • retreating,
  • gave in,
  • caving in,
  • pull back,
  • giving ground,
  • pulled back,
  • gives ground,
  • caves in,
  • cave in,
  • chicken out,
  • have no fight left,
  • give up,
  • pulls back,
  • beg off,
  • holds back,
  • back pedal,
  • wimp out.
  •back out
  • shy from,
  • worm out,
  • blow it off,
  • blow off,
  • weasel out,
  • throw in towel,
  • get cold feet,
  • throwing in the towel,
  • wiggle out,
  • throw in the towel.
  •chicken out
  • gave way,
  • turn yellow,
  • give way,
  • turning yellow,
  • giving way,
  • funk out,
  • have no stomach for.
  •compromise
  • Perilling,
  • Periled,
  • put under suspicion,
  • Periling,
  • mar,
  • Jeopardized,
  • Menaced,
  • Perilled.
  •equivocate
  • mince words,
  • jiving,
  • cover up,
  • begging the question,
  • jives,
  • Parried,
  • quibble,
  • tergiverse,
  • flip-flopping,
  • covering up,
  • beg the question,
  • sit on the fence,
  • cloud the issue,
  • jived,
  • covers up,
  • sit on fence,
  • minced words,
  • give run around,
  • pussyfoot,
  • jive,
  • flipflop,
  • lied,
  • tell white lie,
  • covered up.
  •hedge
  • be noncommittal,
  • give the run around,
  • shillyshally.
  •renege
  • break one's promise,
  • break promise.
  •Other relevant words:
  • parry,
  • manoeuvre,
  • retire,
  • arrangement,
  • fence-sitting,
  • cash in,
  • peg out,
  • compound,
  • fudge,
  • reach a compromise,
  • meerschaum,
  • kick off,
  • nonalignment,
  • make an adjustment,
  • deal,
  • renegue,
  • go scot free,
  • live alone,
  • retreat,
  • Mugwumpism,
  • adjust,
  • Mugwumpery,
  • drop,
  • neutralism,
  • concession,
  • go free,
  • yield,
  • give and take,
  • straddle,
  • strike a balance,
  • make concessions,
  • strike a bargain,
  • surrender,
  • noninvolvement,
  • neutrality,
  • bargain,
  • fence,
  • abstention,
  • take the veil,
  • compose,
  • settlement,
  • understanding,
  • anythingarianism,
  • tergiversate,
  • get off cheap,
  • sit it out,
  • fink out,
  • trim,
  • poor excuse,
  • settle,
  • accommodate,
  • impartiality,
  • get by,
  • cop a plea,
  • die,
  • get away with,
  • waffle,
  • get off,
  • conk,
  • yielding,
  • adjustment,
  • meet halfway,
  • kick in,
  • abatement of differences,
  • shuffle,
  • avoid responsibility for,
  • out,
  • composition,
  • check out,
  • alibi,
  • make a deal,
  • accommodation,
  • seclude,
  • split the difference,
  • croak,
  • go fifty-fifty,
  • independence,
  • rusticate.

Antonyms for Cop out:

• v.

  • abandon, quit
    ready, be ready, take on, face.
  • Other antonyms:
    satisfy, comply, honor, adhere, fulfill, endurance, keep, toleration, submission, abidance.

Homophones for Cop out:

• chukka boot, covet, caviidae, capet, cup of tea, chapatti, coapt, chopped, cabot, cuspated, cope with, cave bat, chapati, cockpit, cause of death, cefobid, chip at, coffeepot, couch potato, cupid, chuffed, cuspate, cobitidae, copepod, caput, cuspid, cocksfoot, Cu Ft, cavitied, cusped, chafeweed, cubit, cheviot, capitate, civet, capote, capped, copyedit, capeweed, cowboy boot, cuspidated, cup tie, copout, caveat, chapped, cuspidate, co-opt, cowboy hat, cavetto, chip away at, copied, cohabit, couvade, cebidae, chafed, cuboid, copy out, chaffweed, Coup D'etat, coveted, cesspit, Chabad, cupidity, copt, check bit, copepoda, cavity.

Hyponym for Cop out:

• v.

  • cognition
    opt, prefer, choose.