Synonyms for stand back
stand back

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1. stand back

   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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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1. 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.

2. Matthew Heimbach:

   Our members will instructed that if there's trouble to stand back and let law enforcement do its job.

3. Donald Trump:

   Proud Boys, stand back and stand by, but I’ll tell you what, I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem.

4. Peter King:

   We have to be able to go in there and find out what's happening so we can be tipped off and not stand back and treat all communities as if they're the same, if it's Islamist terrorism, we have to have more surveillance in those communities.

5. 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.