| wheedle(verb, humor, court, beg, kowtow) |
| yes(verb, humor, acquiesce, court, beg) |
| yield(verb, withdraw, leave, abandon, surrender) |
| accede(withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| accept defeat(expression, withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| accept humiliation |
| acquiesce(withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| admit(withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| admit defeat(verb, expression, withdraw, leave, abandon) |
| admit you were wrong(expression, idiom, withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| apple polish(verb, expression, acquiesce, subscribe, soft-soaping) |
| back off(expression, withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| back pedal(expression, withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| backpedal(withdraw, yield, renounce, retract) |
| backtrack(withdraw, yield, renounce, retract, backpedal) |
| balk(withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| be humiliated |
| beg off(expression, withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| bow out(expression, withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| call off(expression, withdraw, renounce, retract) |