Antonyms for back down

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bak

Phonetic Transcription : bæk

Definition of back down

Origin : in figurative sense of "withdraw a charge," 1859, American English, from notion of descending a ladder, etc.; from back (v.) + down (adv.).

verb back off

Example sentences :

Either you'd back down or else you'd give the man a beating.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Then I carried it on my back down the street, round a corner, to an archway.
Extract from : « The First and The Last » by John Galsworthy

What are you going to do, Dave—try to turn around here or back down?
Extract from : « Dave Porter At Bear Camp » by Edward Stratemeyer

But when the day came for the election, no Gould was to be seen, and back down it tumbled.
Extract from : « Hidden Treasures » by Harry A. Lewis

But they'll neither of them back down a hair, for losing face.
Extract from : « The Golden Judge » by Nathaniel Gordon

Also, each hated to be the first to back down from a fair bet.
Extract from : « The Golden Judge » by Nathaniel Gordon

Father Hennepin and Anthony again joined them, and accompanied them back down the river, as he says, about eighty leagues.
Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott

"I think we are sold, and the sooner we back down, the better," added Lindsley.
Extract from : « Down the Rhine » by Oliver Optic

But she hated to back down on any part of her program before Grace.
Extract from : « Chicken Little Jane » by Lily Munsell Ritchie

In the face of the assemblage Honey Tone could not back down.
Extract from : « Lady Luck » by Hugh Wiley

Synonyms for back down

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