Found 2 items, similar to climb-down.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: climb-down
climb-down
n : a retraction of a previously held position [syn:
withdrawal,
backdown]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: climb-down
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]