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Backdown

noun
1.
A retraction of a previously held position.  Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal.






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... buffaloed," he said later, as he finished giving an account of the affair to Emerson Mead. "It was the meanest sort of a backdown you ever saw, but it just showed the fellow's gait. A man with no more grit than that had better go back east, where he can wear a stove-pipe hat without lookin' like a fool, which ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly



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