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Synonyms for stand back
stand back
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
stand back
Synonyms:
avoid, hold aloof, hold off, keep aloof, keep away, keep clear, keep out, let alone, let be, retire, stand aside, stand away, stand off, withdrawAntonyms:
arbitrate, intercede, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, meddle, mediate
Princeton's WordNet
stand back, keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay awayverb
stay clear of, avoid
"Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous"
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keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay awaystand backverb
stand away from an object or person
"He stood back to look at her"
Synonyms:
keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay away
How to use stand back in a sentence?
I'm, for one, not going to stand back when someone is advocating a global depression.
Our members will instructed that if there's trouble to stand back and let law enforcement do its job.
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.
When you're working away you just focus on joining two bits of wood, but at the end of the day when you stand back and think' I'm building Richard III's coffin,' it's incredible.
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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- zurückbleibenGerman
- un paso atrásSpanish
- katsoa vierestäFinnish
- չմասնակցել, [[ետ]] [[կանգնել]], [[ձեռնպահ]] [[մնալ]]Armenian
- ficar de fora, [[sair]] [[de]] [[perto]], [[distanciar]]-[[se]], dar distância, [[ir]] [[para]] [[trás]], [[ficar]] [[de]] [[longe]], [[ficar]] [[afastado]], [[dar]] [[espaço]], [[afastar]]-[[se]], recuarPortuguese
- sta în spateRomanian
- [[остава́ться]] [[в]] [[сторона, [[держа́ться]] [[сза́ди]], отступи́ть, отойти́, [[не]] [[вме́шиваться]], отступа́ть, отходи́тьRussian
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