climb-down

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

climb-down
    n 1: a retraction of a previously held position [syn:
         {withdrawal}, {backdown}, {climb-down}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]