bow out

Questions about bow out

What does bow out mean?

bow out means "remove oneself from an obligation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bow out?

Close synonyms include chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, withdraw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bow out a common word?

bow out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.