back down's Usage Examples:

the tea consignees, two of whom were his sons, not to back down.

Gertrude's resentment of Viola bears a strong resemblance to Viola's feelings of animosity towards Charlie, who decides to back down as she feels the same thing will happen to them in 30 years.

Allegedly after refusing to back down from a business deal in favour of a politician close to Vladimir Putin, Kumarin was raided and arrested by 300 special forces officers on August 24, 2007.

He hires William Banks (played by Benjamin Bratt) to help him start back down the road to sobriety.

The hydrogen ions in the thylakoid space then diffuse back down their concentration gradient, flowing back out into the stroma through.

He walks back down the porch, steals a car, and disappears.

This antidromic "backfiring" elicits an orthodromic impulse that follows back down the alpha motor.

It is the opposite of disinflation, which seeks to return the economy back down to the long-term trend.

After a two-week standoff, a judge ruled in favour of the clinic, and Van Agt had to back down from taking the clinic by force.

Bonnie home, but Eugene doesn"t back down and Woods calls him a wimp for chickening out.

Ontario general election, the new government of Doug Ford announced plans to demote the department from a ministry back down to an office, but was forced to.

travelling north, it is necessary to continue up to Junction 37 and then come off, turn round, and head all the way back down.

He has climbed then skied back down the SW face.

Synonyms:

downward, downwards, downwardly,

Antonyms:

up, upwardly, upward, upwards,