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Antonyms for go back on
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : bak |
Phonetic Transcription : bæk |
- accept
- acknowledge
- admit
- advance
- agree
- aid
- allow
- approve
- assist
- be faithful
- be honest
- be loyal
- be quiet
- be upright
- care
- come
- come back
- come in
- continue
- corroborate
- defend
- destroy
- dispute
- dissent
- emphasize
- enforce
- face
- fight
- forge
- go forward
- help
- hide
- hold
- include
- join
- keep
- keep secret
- maintain
- permit
- persevere
- promise
- protect
- reaffirm
- refuse
- reject
- remain
- repeat
- sanction
- stand
- stay
- stop
- straighten
- support
- tell truth
- uphold
- wait
- welcome
Definition of go back on
Origin :- Old English bæc "back," from Proto-Germanic *bakam (cf. Old Saxon and Middle Dutch bak, Old Frisian bek), with no known connections outside Germanic.
- The cognates mostly have been ousted in this sense in other modern Germanic languages by words akin to Modern English ridge (cf. Danish ryg, German Rücken). Many Indo-European languages show signs of once having distinguished the horizontal back of an animal (or a mountain range) from the upright back of a human. In other cases, a modern word for "back" may come from a word related to "spine" (Italian schiena, Russian spina) or "shoulder, shoulder blade" (Spanish espalda, Polish plecy).
- To turn (one's) back on (someone or something) "ignore" is from early 14c. Behind (someone's) back "clandestinely" is from late 14c.
- To know (something) like the back of one's hand, implying familiarity, is first attested 1893. The first attested use of the phrase is from a dismissive speech made to a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Catriona":
- If I durst speak to herself, you may be certain I would never dream of trusting it to you; because I know you like the back of my hand, and all your blustering talk is that much wind to me.
- The story, a sequel to "Kidnapped," has a Scottish setting and context, and the back of my hand to you was noted in the late 19th century as a Scottish expression meaning "I will have nothing to do with you" [e.g. "Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language"]. In English generally, the back of (one's) hand has been used to imply contempt and rejection since at least 1300. Perhaps the connection of a menacing dismissal is what made Stevenson choose that particular anatomical reference.
- As in lie : verb tell an untruth
- As in back down : verb back off
- As in back out : verb withdraw
- As in back-pedal : verb change mind
- As in retract : verb take back; renege on
- As in stab in the back : verb attack unsuspecting person
- As in take back : verb retract
- As in betray : verb be disloyal
- As in chicken out : verb back down
- As in defect : verb break from belief, faith
- As in desert : verb abandon, defect
- As in go back/go back on : verb break promise; change one's mind
Synonyms for go back on
- abandon
- abjure
- abscond
- accede
- acquiesce
- admit
- apostatize
- avoid
- back
- back down
- back off
- back out
- back out of
- back pedal
- backpedal
- backstab
- backtrack
- bail out
- balk
- be disloyal
- be unfaithful
- be untruthful
- beach
- bear false witness
- beg off
- beguile
- betray
- bite the hand that feeds you
- blow it off
- blow the whistle
- bluff
- bolt
- bow out
- break faith
- break promise
- break trust
- break with
- BS
- bull
- call off
- cancel
- cave in
- change one's mind
- change opinion
- change sides
- check out
- chicken out
- chuck
- commit treason
- con
- concede
- concoct
- cop out
- countermand
- crawl out
- cross
- decamp
- deceive
- default on
- deliver up
- delude
- demur
- deny
- depart
- desert
- disavow
- disclaim
- disown
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distort
- do a U-turn
- do an about-face
- double-cross
- doublecross
- draw in
- duck
- dupe
- eat one's words
- eliminate
- equivocate
- escape
- exaggerate
- exclude
- fabricate
- fail to honor
- fake
- fall away from
- fall back
- falsify
- fib
- finger
- flee
- fly
- forget it
- forsake
- forswear
- frame
- fudge
- funk out
- get cold feet
- give ground
- give in
- give up
- give way
- go
- go AWOL
- go back on
- go into reverse
- go over
- go over the fence
- go over the hill
- go west
- have change of heart
- have no fight left
- have no stomach for
- have second thoughts
- hold back
- inform against
- inform on
- invent
- jilt
- knife
- lapse
- leave
- leave high and dry
- leave in the lurch
- leave stranded
- let down
- light
- make believe
- make concessions
- malign
- maroon
- misguide
- misinform
- misinstruct
- mislead
- misrepresent
- misspeak
- misstate
- nig
- opt out
- overdraw
- palter
- perjure
- pervert
- phony
- plant
- play false
- play Judas
- play truant
- prevaricate
- promote
- pull back
- pull in
- pull out
- put on
- put up a front
- quit
- rat
- rebel
- recall
- recant
- recede
- reclaim
- recoil
- reconsider
- reel in
- reject
- relinquish
- renege
- renounce
- repeal
- repossess
- repudiate
- rescind
- resign
- retract
- retreat
- retrocede
- retrograde
- return
- reverse
- revert
- revoke
- revolt
- rule out
- run out
- run out on
- schism
- scratch
- seduce
- sell down the river
- sell out
- sheathe
- shift one's ground
- shy from
- sing a different song
- sneak off
- snow
- soft-soap
- split
- spurn
- stab in the back
- strand
- string along
- submit
- surrender
- suspend
- take a hike
- take a walk
- take back
- take in
- take off
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- throw in the towel
- throw over
- trick
- turn
- turn coat
- turn in
- turn informer
- turn state's evidence
- turn traitor
- turn yellow
- unsay
- vacate
- victimize
- violate oath
- walk
- walk out on
- weasel out
- welsh
- wiggle out
- wimp out
- withdraw
- withdraw from agreement or statement
- worm out
- yield
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