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bow out

verb as in back out

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True, she was only a second-string nominee, after Tom Daschle had to bow out because of those tax problems.

And it seems unlikely that Berlusconi is ready to bow out, especially after such a miraculous comeback.

Her close friend, Magdalena Rodriguez, was to have accompanied her on the trip but was forced to bow out for financial reasons.

Given her advanced age and storied career, wouldn't the aftermath of the surgery have been a good time to gracefully bow out?

The federal courts should just bow out, they say, of deciding things like gay marriage (and abortion rights).

He used to shoot arrows with a bow out of the door of the house and hit a mark on a tree that was opposite him.

Edith leaned over the terrace wall, and took the double-bass bow out of the tall clump of sweet peas.

I took a bow out of a man's hand, and then an arrow, and fitted it to the string; he made signs that he shot birds with it.

And all this Inter-Solar man would do now was to bow out and try poaching elsewhere.

He pulled the violin and bow out of the old baize bag and fiddled as we walked.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bow out, such as: bail out, drop out, pull out, quit, retire, and withdraw.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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