Synonyms for stand back
stand back

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1. stand back

   Synonyms:
   avoid, hold aloof, hold off, keep aloof, keep away, keep clear, keep out, let alone, let be, retire, stand aside, stand away, stand off, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   arbitrate, intercede, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, meddle, mediate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stand back, keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay awayverb

   stay clear of, avoid

   "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous"

   Synonyms:
   keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay away

2. stand backverb

   stand away from an object or person

   "He stood back to look at her"

   Synonyms:
   keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay away

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1. Japanese Proverb:

   Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up;

2. Ann Furedi:

   We can no longer stand back and watch this shameful political gameplay with women's health at a time of national crisis, we will no longer be complicit in government policy of booking bleeding, vomiting women on interminable ferry journeys, putting their health at serious risk.

3. Sebastian Tynkkynen:

   If the coalition can't close the Swedish border and thereby stop 50,000 people from arriving in our country, the Finns Party cannot stand back and allow the immigration policy to be wrecked.

4. Matthew Heimbach:

   Our members will instructed that if there's trouble to stand back and let law enforcement do its job.

5. Michael Ibsen:

   When you're working away you just focus on joining two bits of wood, but at the end of the day when you stand back and think' I'm building Richard III's coffin,' it's incredible.