Back out
Back out verb - To break a promise or agreement.
Usage example: she backed out on her offer to help with the wedding planning
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Spikes have a strange tendency to repeatedly retract into the ground and then come back out again, forming a sort of Temporary Platform.
Source: Spikes of Doom
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