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What does back down mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to.
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The soldier shook his head, they saluted once again, and he turned a perfect about-face and walked back down the steps to his horse.
It's the relentless, mind-numbing repeat tasks that drive me up the wall, and sometimes I can't even be bothered to crawl back down again.
In his next fight, Taylor dropped back down to welterweight, where he was matched against a giant welterweight in Crisanto Espana.
Giving up on the idea of watching the first run of the show, we wandered back down the road to get front row seats for the second leg.
When we got bored of that, we'd sit back down and shout at each other over the line.
During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri.

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