Back Down
How to Conjugate Back Down
- Infinitive: Back Down
- Present Tense: Back Down/ Backs Down
- -ing Form: Backing Down
- Past Tense: Backed Down
- Past Participle: Backed Down
Back Down is a separable phrasal verb and has 1 definition.
Definitions of Back Down:
1. To withdraw your position in a fight, argument, plan, etc.
Examples: The item at the auction was so popular that no one backed down until the price reached $1 billion.
He backed down in the argument out of respect for his mother.
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