Backdown: alternatives and connections

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity;…

To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, o…

To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.

The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.

A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and recedi…

To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete…

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.

The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, o…

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of str…

Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- oppose…

Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.