Antonyms for stand backstand back

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1. stand back

   Antonyms:
   arbitrate, intercede, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, meddle, mediate

   Synonyms:
   avoid, hold aloof, hold off, keep aloof, keep away, keep clear, keep out, let alone, let be, retire, stand aside, stand away, stand off, withdraw

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1. stand back, keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay awayverb

   stay clear of, avoid

   "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous"

   Synonyms:
   keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay away

2. stand backverb

   stand away from an object or person

   "He stood back to look at her"

   Synonyms:
   keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay away

How to use stand back in a sentence?

1. Ann Furedi:

   We can no longer stand back and watch this shameful political gameplay with women's health at a time of national crisis, we will no longer be complicit in government policy of booking bleeding, vomiting women on interminable ferry journeys, putting their health at serious risk.

2. Bill Chickering:

   Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

3. California GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy:

   I will not stand back as a leader of this party, believing in this nation that all are created equal, that that stands or continues to stand and have any role with us.

4. Unknown:

   We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.

5. Japanese Proverb:

   Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up;

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