Give ground

Synonyms for "give ground" (29 found)

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Closest matches (6)

back downback outbeat a retreatbreak off combatcave incease resistance

Strong matches (9)

Verb(1 words)
cede the field
disengagedraw backdraw offfall backgivegive ingive placegive up

Related words (14)

give waygo backmove backpull backpull outquit the fieldrelentretireretreatrun backstand backwithdrawyield
Verb(1 words)
turn tail

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Those male moose at the southeast arm didn't frighten very much when we docked to fly-fish one day. One was so scared of us he just walked toward us and snorted. We gave ground.

Source: wiktionary