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Backdown vs Retrocede - What's the difference?

backdown | retrocede |

As a noun backdown

is an act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

As a verb retrocede is

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backdown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

    • retrocede

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To grant back.
    • to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor
  • To go back.
  • * 1994 , David F Drake, Reforming the health care market: an interpretive economic history
    • Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.
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