back down
verb
backed down; backing down; backs down
intransitive verb
: to withdraw from a commitment or position
Synonyms
- back off
- back out
- cop out
- fink out
- renege
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
if you back down about dinner again, I'm not going to agree to another date
Word History
First Known Use
1849, in the meaning defined above
back down
verb
as in to back out
to break a promise or agreement if you back down about dinner again, I'm not going to agree to another date Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- back out
- back off
- cop out
- recall
- fink out
- wimp out
- withdraw
- renege
- go back on
- take back
- retract
- beg off
- cry off
- chicken (out)
- backtrack
- backpedal
- recant
- unsay
- forswear
- disavow
- abjure
- abnegate
- foreswear
- repudiate
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- adhere (to)
- comply (with)
- follow through (with)
- honor
- keep
- satisfy
- fulfill
- fulfil
- rid of
- rid oneself of
- rid someone or something of
- ridability
- ridable
- riddance
- riddances
- ridded
- riddel
- ridden
- ridden (out)
- ridden herd on
- ridden out
- ridden up
- ridder
- ridders
- ridding
- ridding of
- ridding oneself of
- ridding someone or something of
- riddle
- riddle (out)
- riddle and shears
- riddle canon
- riddle out