All cop out synonyms

verb cop out

• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• 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 off — If you back off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.
• back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
• desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• rationalize — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
• renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
• renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• skip — to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.
• 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.
• give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.