back down

VERB

back off

Synonyms

STRONGEST

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

WEAK

accede acquiesce back pedal 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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

advance allow dispute dissent fight permit refuse reject uphold

WEAK

go forward

Example Sentences

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And then we drove home, back down the snowy shoulders of the mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal

"As the planet gets hotter, rocks weather faster and take up more CO2, cooling the planet back down again," said Andy Ridgwell, a UC Riverside geologist and co-author of the study published in Science.

From Science Daily

Some economists say the jobless rate is likely to come back down in December.

From MarketWatch

“We brought it back to life, and then brought it back down to an acceptable level for where it needed to be story-wise,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s critically important that we do bring inflation back down towards our target,” she said in a moderated discussion at the University of Cincinnati.

From The Wall Street Journal

back down

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