Synonyms for throw in the towel
- back down
- cancel
- give up
- renege
- surrender
- avoid
- back pedal
- beg off
- blow it off
- chicken out
- cop out
- get cold feet
- go back on
- recant
- resign
- scratch
- shy from
- weasel out
- welsh
- wiggle out
- worm out
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WORD ORIGIN
late 13c., from Old French toaille (12c.), from Frankish *thwahlja, from Proto-Germanic *thwakhlijon (cf. Old Saxon thwahila, Middle Dutch dwale "towel," Dutch dwaal "altar cloth," Old High German dwehila "towel," German dialectal Zwehle "napkin"); related to German zwagen, Old English þwean "to wash." Spanish toalla, Italian tovaglia are Germanic loan-words.
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verbabandon, surrenderRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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