(UK, idiomatic) To change or revise a previous opinion or decision.
(UK, idiomatic) To change or revise a previous opinion or decision.
Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who l…
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(transitive, US) To reschedule (something) to a later date or time.
(intransitive) To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
(UK, _, dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.
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(transitive) To convince (someone) to withdraw from a challenge.