Usually means: Withdraw gracefully from a situation.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bow out: Merriam-Webster
  2. bow out, bow out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bow out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bow out: Vocabulary.com
  5. bow out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bow out: Wiktionary
  7. bow out: Dictionary.com
  8. bow out: Rhymezone
  9. bow out: FreeDictionary.org
  10. bow out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. bow out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. bow out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bow out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bow out: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bow out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bow out)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact.

Similar:
back down, withdraw, back off, pull out, chicken out, fall on one's sword, step down, drop out, take a bow, quit, more...

Opposite:
step up, participate, engage, join in, take part

Types:
resign, retire, quit, leave, withdraw, drop out, more...

Adjectives:
put off, quit, away, off, gone, alight, out, offset, departed, offline, breakout

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Similar:
back down, withdraw, back off, pull out, chicken out, fall on one's sword, step down, drop out, take a bow, quit, more...

Opposite:
step up, participate, engage, join in, take part

Types:
resign, retire, quit, leave, withdraw, drop out, more...

Adjectives:
put off, quit, away, off, gone, alight, out, offset, departed, offline, breakout



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