All give ground synonyms

verb give ground

• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
• disengage — to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten: to disengage a clutch.
• fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
• sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
• retrograde — moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
• vacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
• quail — a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
• withstand — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
• kowtow — to act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference.
• appease — If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want.
• capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
• cede — If someone in a position of authority cedes land or power to someone else, they let them have the land or power, often as a result of military or political pressure.
• humor — hacker humour
• buckle — A buckle is a piece of metal or plastic attached to one end of a belt or strap, which is used to fasten it.
• cave — A cave is a large hole in the side of a cliff or hill, or one that is under the ground.
• abide — to tolerate; put up with
• stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
• relent — to soften in feeling, temper, or determination; become more mild, compassionate, or forgiving.
• succumb — to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
• obey — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
• indulge — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
• truckle — to submit or yield obsequiously or tamely (usually followed by to): Don't truckle to unreasonable demands.
• tolerate — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
• bow — When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• knuckle — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
• blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
• abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
• switch — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
• book — A book is a number of pieces of paper, usually with words printed on them, which are fastened together and fixed inside a cover of stronger paper or cardboard. Books contain information, stories, or poetry, for example.
• detach — If you detach one thing from another that it is fixed to, you remove it. If one thing detaches from another, it becomes separated from it.
• pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
• 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.
• beg off — to ask to be released from an engagement, obligation, etc
• go back on — at, to, or toward the rear; backward: to step back.
• wimp out — a weak, ineffectual, timid person.
• draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
• fall back — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.