Synonyms for back off
back off

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1. back up, back off, back downverb

   move backwards from a certain position

   "The bully had to back down"

   Synonyms:
   back, choke off, foul, clog, chicken out, back up, bow out, support, back down, clog up, congest, pull out, choke

2. chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow outverb

   remove oneself from an obligation

   "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved"

   Synonyms:
   pull, pull up, extract, chicken out, back up, bow out, draw out, withdraw, back down, take out, get out, draw, pull out

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1. Spun Gold:

   Harry was born into a marriage that was falling apart, and it’s a marriage that played out on the world stage… The dirty laundry is right out there… Then at age 12, he has to walk behind his mother’s coffin in front of 2 billion people watching from around the world. He has to shake the hands of people who are weeping, who haven’t even met his mother. And yet he has to hold it together. Prince Harry (center) with his brother Prince William and father Prince Charles at Princess Diana's funeral. (Reuters) That plays forward to today in terms of why Harry wants to be so protective of Meghan. When the British press were frankly being racist about her arrival to the U.K. and into the royal family, Harry issues a statement essentially saying 'back off.' And they did back off. He couldn’t protect his mother as a 12-year-old boy, but he is determined to protect Meghan. And it comes as no surprise that he and his brother have a big distrust of the media.

2. Flavio Volpe:

   How do you get a bully to back off when their foot is on your neck? Do you plead with them or do you bite the foot?

3. Yannis Dragasakis:

   Our objective is a viable solution inside the euro, we will not back off from the red lines we have set.

4. Vali Nasr:

   The Taliban may be trying to slacken the resolve of the military by suggesting that there could be a tremendous human costs to the military offensive and create public pressure on the military to back off from this offensive, but it may actually ricochet on them.

5. Dimitris Stratoulis:

   The government's move is a message that it wants to wait and see how far they (lenders) will take it, if they will back off from this unreasonable, inhumane, colonialist package they are proposing.