Thesaurus / back pedal
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synonyms for back pedal
- abandon
- admit
- back off
- back out
- backtrack
- balk
- cancel
- cave in
- concede
- give in
- give up
- pull back
- pull out
- renege
- retreat
- surrender
- take back
- withdraw
- accede
- acquiesce
- beg off
- bow out
- chicken out
- cop out
- demur
- give ground
- go back on
- have no fight left
- hold back
- recant
- recoil
- resign
- submit
- wimp out
- withdraw from agreement or statement
- yield
- back down
- cancel
- give up
- renege
- surrender
- avoid
- beg off
- blow it off
- chicken out
- cop out
- get cold feet
- go back on
- recant
- resign
- scratch
- shy from
- throw in the towel
- weasel out
- wiggle out
- worm out
- back out of
- change opinion
- default on
- do an about-face
- do a U-turn
- fail to honor
- go back on
- go into reverse
- have second thoughts
- reconsider
- renege
- shift one's ground
- sing a different song
- take back
- avoid
- back down
- back out
- beg off
- blow it off
- bow out
- cancel
- cop out
- funk out
- get cold feet
- give up
- give way
- go back on
- have no stomach for
- make concessions
- pull out
- recant
- renege
- resign
- scratch
- shy from
- surrender
- throw in the towel
- turn yellow
- weasel out
- wiggle out
- wimp out
- withdraw
- worm out
- yield
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How to use back pedal in a sentence
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONOff went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO BACK PEDAL
- abandon
- accede
- acquiesce
- admit
- back off
- back out
- back pedal
- backtrack
- balk
- beg off
- bow out
- cancel
- cave in
- chicken out
- concede
- cop out
- demur
- give ground
- give in
- give up
- go back on
- have no fight left
- hold back
- pull back
- pull out
- recant
- recoil
- renege
- resign
- retreat
- submit
- surrender
- take back
- wimp out
- withdraw
- withdraw from agreement or statement
- yield
- avoid
- back down
- back out
- back pedal
- beg off
- blow it off
- bow out
- cancel
- cop out
- funk out
- get cold feet
- give up
- give way
- go back on
- have no stomach for
- make concessions
- pull out
- recant
- renege
- resign
- scratch
- shy from
- surrender
- throw in the towel
- turn yellow
- weasel out
- wiggle out
- wimp out
- withdraw
- worm out
- yield
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