The action or an act of reversing; a reversal.

The action or fact of revoking or rescinding a decision, decree, etc.; annulment, cancellation.

The action or an act of relenting; giving way, softening, yielding; (also) remission or slackening of force or speed. Chiefly in negative…

figurative. Deviation or declining from a standard; falling away (from one's allegiance), apostasy.

A change of mind; a retraction of something; regret for past conduct. Obsolete. rare.

Falling away, failing. (Cf. intercide, v.2)

The action of relent, v.1, in various senses; esp. softening, yielding.

A complete surrender of claims; a retreat from a position taken up or from a stand made.

backing-down: withdrawal, shirking.

figurative. The checking of a forward movement, the reversing of an action.

The act of stepping down or withdrawing from a position.