All backdown synonyms
back·down
B b noun backdown
- renunciation — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
- withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
- recantation — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.