All chicken out synonyms

verb chicken out

• back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
• back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
• bow out — If you bow out of something, you stop taking part in it.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• pull out — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
• recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
• renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
• resign — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
• 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.
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• 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.
• beg off — to ask to be released from an engagement, obligation, etc
• get cold feet — (Idiomatic) VI to become nervous or anxious and reconsider a decision about an upcoming event.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• go back on — at, to, or toward the rear; backward: to step back.
• 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.
• wimp out — a weak, ineffectual, timid person.