All give ground synonyms

verb give ground

• back off — If you back off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.
• pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
• retire — a movement in which the dancer brings one foot to the knee of the supporting leg and then returns it to the fifth position.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
• backtrack — If you backtrack on a statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• 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.
• concede — If you concede something, you admit, often unwillingly, that it is true or correct.
• back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
• admit — If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• 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.
• 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.
• back off — If you back off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.
• 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.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
• pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• remove — to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• retire — a movement in which the dancer brings one foot to the knee of the supporting leg and then returns it to the fifth position.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• 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.
• go back — return
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• reel — a lively Scottish dance.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
• agree — If people agree with each other about something, they have the same opinion about it or say that they have the same opinion.
• acknowledge — If you acknowledge a fact or a situation, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists.
• drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• secede — to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
• part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• regress — to move backward; go back.
• decamp — If you decamp, you go away from somewhere secretly or suddenly.
• repeal — to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
• rescind — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
• rusticate — to go to the country.
• quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
• run — execution