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Noun backdown has 1 sense

• backdown(n = noun.communication) climb-down, withdrawal - a retraction of a previously held position; Array
is a kind of abjuration, recantation, retraction
Derived form verb back down₁

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backdown

Submission

N submission, yielding, nonresistance, obedience, surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation, backdown, obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration, surrendering, submissive, resigned, crouching, downtrodden, down on one's marrow bones, on one's bended knee, unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting, pliant, undefended, untenable, indefensible, humble, have it your own way, it can't be helped, amen, da locum melioribus, tempori parendum.

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