[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
grand climacteric great climacteric 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

climb-down
     n : a retraction of a previously held position syn: withdrawal,
          backdown
see also:
withdrawal backdown 

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