All beg off synonyms

verb beg off

• accede — If you accede to someone's request, you do what they ask.
• acquiesce — If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do.
• bow out — If you bow out of something, you stop taking part in it.
• chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• demur — If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
• recoil — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
• resign — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
• submit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• go back on — at, to, or toward the rear; backward: to step back.
• wimp out — a weak, ineffectual, timid person.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
• welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
• get cold feet — (Idiomatic) VI to become nervous or anxious and reconsider a decision about an upcoming event.
• throw in the towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
• weasel out — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
• give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.