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Exact Match:

stand back: stand away from an object or person; "He stood back to look at her"; stay clear of, avoid; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous"

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Related Words:

stand behind collapse

stick up for collapse

side with collapse

give ground collapse

stand by collapse: be available or ready for a certain function or service; be loyal to; "She stood by her husband in times of trouble"; "The friends stuck together through the war"; not act or do anything; "He just stood by when the police beat up the demonstrators"

take sides collapse

draw back collapse

back out collapse: move out of a space backwards; "He backed out of the driveway"

go back collapse: belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"

disengage collapse: become free; "in neutral, the gears disengage"; release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears"

fall back collapse: retreat; fall backwards and down; have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"

avoid collapse: stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"; refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

stand fast collapse

retrocede collapse

recede collapse: become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older"; move back and away from; "The enemy fell back"

back down collapse

hold fast collapse

be still collapse

depart from collapse

not budge collapse

pull back collapse: pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows"; move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!"

stand pat collapse: refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief

weather the storm collapse

stand apart collapse

not touch collapse

abstain collapse: choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"; refrain from voting

back up collapse: make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy; "You'd better back up these files!"; move backwards from a certain position; "The bully had to back down"

pull out collapse: move out or away; "The troops pulled out after the cease-fire"

uncouple collapse: disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds"

stand aside collapse

beg off collapse

stickle collapse: dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)

let alone collapse: much less; "she can't boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal"

reverberate collapse: treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberating furnace; "reverberate ore"; be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"; have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"

disarticulate collapse

disconnect collapse: make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

stick it out collapse

revert collapse: undergo reversion, as in a mutation; go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

dissociate collapse: to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

stand still collapse: remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile; "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"

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