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Antonyms for back downback down
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back up, back off, back downverb
move backwards from a certain position
"The bully had to back down"
Synonyms:
back, choke off, foul, clog, back off, chicken out, back up, bow out, support, clog up, congest, pull out, chokechicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow outverb
remove oneself from an obligation
"He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved"
Synonyms:
pull, pull up, extract, back off, chicken out, back up, bow out, draw out, withdraw, take out, get out, draw, pull out
How to use back down in a sentence?
She starts out having some benefits of gender because she is something different, but then starts to feel like a typical politician and gets back down to earth, you do see her starting to frame her campaign as a campaign for women, but that's a narrow campaign, not a winning campaign. You aren't going to win 100% of women.
He (Kim Jong Un) doesn't look willing to back down on nuclear armament and the congress is the place for maximum impact if he wants to declare it to the world.
It’s tough, but we proved tonight that we’re not going to back down from anyone.
We seem to be taking a breather here, consolidating gains made off the nice jobs report. It is going to take something else to get us back down below the $1.0760 range, but we're not too sure what that immediate catalyst will be, given the economic calendar is light this week.
President Donald Trump is President Donald Trump, president Donald Trump doesn't back down and President Donald Trump doesn't want me to back down.
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