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adverb
1.
In or to or toward a former location.
2.
At or to or toward the back or rear.  Synonyms: backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards.  "Tripped when he stepped backward" , "She looked rearward out the window of the car"
3.
In or to or toward an original condition.
4.
In or to or toward a past time.  Synonym: backward.  "Never look back" , "Lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
5.
In reply.
6.
In repayment or retaliation.  "He hit me and I hit him back" , "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher"
noun
1.
The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.  Synonym: dorsum.
2.
The side that goes last or is not normally seen.  Synonym: rear.
3.
The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer.  Synonym: rear.  "It was hidden in the rear of the store"
4.
(football) a person who plays in the backfield.
5.
The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord.  Synonyms: backbone, rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column.
6.
The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book.  Synonyms: binding, book binding, cover.
7.
The part of a garment that covers the back of your body.
8.
A support that you can lean against while sitting.  Synonym: backrest.
9.
(American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage.
adjective
1.
Related to or located at the back.  "The back entrance"
2.
Located at or near the back of an animal.  Synonyms: hind, hinder.  "The hinder part of a carcass"
3.
Of an earlier date.
verb
(past & past part. backed; pres. part. backing)
1.
Be behind; approve of.  Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support.  "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
2.
Travel backward.  "The car backed up and hit the tree"
3.
Give support or one's approval to.  Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second.  "I can't back this plan" , "Endorse a new project"
4.
Cause to travel backward.
5.
Support financial backing for.
6.
Be in back of.
7.
Place a bet on.  Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake.  "I'm betting on the new horse"
8.
Shift to a counterclockwise direction.
9.
Establish as valid or genuine.  Synonym: back up.
10.
Strengthen by providing with a back or backing.



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... set them upon a certain rock which was in the plain; and when they had offered a splendid sacrifice to God, and feasted, they offered the cart and the kine as a burnt-offering: and when the lords of the Philistines saw this, they returned back. ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus
... twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as irremediably as a child is made an eunuch." It is a commonplace that Spenser has made more poets than any other one writer. Even Pope, whose empire he came back from Fairyland to overthrow, assured Spence that he had read the "Faerie Queene" with delight when he was a boy, and re-read it with equal pleasure in his last years. Indeed, it is too readily assumed that writers are insensible to the beauties of an opposite school. Pope ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... old Francisco out, And will too soon return him back again; I dare not stay to hear thy love or chiding, Both which have power to charm, since both proceed From a kind ...
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