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Back up

verb

Give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to. Synonym: support. "Her children always backed her up"

Move backwards from a certain position. Synonyms: back down, back off.

Establish as valid or genuine. Synonym: back.

Make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy.

Become or cause to become obstructed. Synonyms: choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul. "The water pipe is backed up"

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"Back up" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Aurora, and, looking back as I leaped over her rail, I could see Miller running back up the dock. ...

— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly

... fugitives, under cover of darkness, could have escaped. The stable guard could have seen nothing from his station, and just below was the hard-packed road leading to the river and the straggling town. There was nothing to trace, and Hamlin climbed back up the bluff completely baffled but desperately resolved to unlock the mystery. The harder the solution appeared, the more determined he became to solve it. As he came out, opposite the barrack entrance, a carriage drove in past the guard-house, the ...

— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish

... she answered briskly. "I am going to climb back up to the boulder and collect the belongings I spilled on the way down. Then I am going to carry Coty to the car line in a kind of triumphal march, because she is the rarest find that I have ever made. I hope you have no ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... set her back up at once. "How dare you make such a proposal to me," she said. "I would have you to know that I am not one of those girls who bring scandal upon the houses in which they live." And in short, for all he could say she refused to have anything ...

— One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles • Various

... suddenly ejaculated, "By Jove! Half a minute," and ran back up the stairs three at a time. Apparently he found what he had gone for on the landing, for I did not hear the opening of the drawing- room door. Then the Honourable Billy redescended ...

— Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green • Jerome K. Jerome

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