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Synonyms for back off
back off
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Princeton's WordNet
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, chokechicken 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
Matched Categories
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#103 | back | |
#148 | support | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3810 | pull | |
#5757 | extract | |
#9718 | foul | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#21204 | choke | |
#30189 | clog | |
#299464 | congest |
How to use back off in a sentence?
To be honest, at first, I was very hesitant when this idea was discussed, my mind keeps telling me to back off. I mean, let’s be real here, it was too ambitious to say the least. Like, how can a small group of students from the Pacific Region convince the majority of the UN members to support this unique initiative?
As I've said from the beginning, China will back off its industrial plans only when U.S. trade measures are large and lasting enough to threaten the influx of foreign exchange. Not due to announcements.
I talked to Art and he was awesome about it, i told him if things were reversed and he was the starter coming back off an injury, we would do the same thing 100 out of 100 times. He gets that.
Now is no time to back off, the virus will decide.
In the closing argument, the prosecutor missed one very important phrase -- I stand with Trump and the Constitution and I will never back off that, ever.
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