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bow out
verb as in back out
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Both players were in tears as Federer bowed out of the game.
She bowed out before any primary votes were cast, avoiding an embarrassing loss in her home state.
Speaking to political news outlet Politico, Harris aides also laid the blame at Biden’s feet and said he should have bowed out sooner.
But the 81-year-old president stubbornly refused to acknowledge his physical and cognitive decline and didn’t bow out of the race until it was too late for the party to conduct a healthy replacement process.
He bows out as one of the most successful and popular drivers on the circuit and the golden boy of Australian motorsport.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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