'climb-down' definitions:
Definition of 'climb-down'
From: WordNet
noun
A retraction of a previously held position [syn: withdrawal, backdown, climb-down]
Definition of 'climb-down'
From: GCIDE
- climb-down \climb-down\ n.
- 1. a retraction of a previously held position.
- Syn: withdrawal, backdown. [WordNet 1.5]
- Grand climacteric or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. [1913 Webster]
- I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. --Burke. [1913 Webster]