backdown

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: back=down

CIDE DICTIONARY

backdown, n. 

 A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

backdown

Submission

N submission, yielding, nonresistance, obedience, surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation, backdown, obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration, surrendering, submissive, resigned, crouching, downtrodden, down on one's marrow bones, on one's bended knee, unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting, pliant, undefended, untenable, indefensible, humble, have it your own way, it can't be helped, amen, da locum melioribus, tempori parendum.