RECEDE, regrade, return, revert, retreat, remigrate, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back, back out [colloq.], back down [colloq.], balk; crawfish [slang, U. S.], crawl [slang]; withdraw; rebound [See Recoil]; go -, come -, turn -, hark -, draw -, fall -, break -, get -, put -, run- back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about [naut.], take the back track; veer, veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.
turn tail, turn round, turn upon one’s heel, turn one’s back upon; retrace one’s steps, dance the back step; sound -, beat- a retreat; go home.
