Climb-down

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  climb-down \climb-down\ n.
     1. a retraction of a previously held position.
  
     Syn: withdrawal, backdown.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  


     {Grand climacteric} or {Great climacteric}, the sixty-third
        year of human life.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be
              regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand
              climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to
              stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds
              of their barbarous metaphysics.       --Burke.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  climb-down
       n : a retraction of a previously held position [syn: {withdrawal},
            {backdown}]