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back

the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage

a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable"

the part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back"

the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned"

the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store"

(football) a person who plays in the backfield

in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"

at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"

in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher"

in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house"

in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep"

in answer; "he wrote back three days later"; "had little to say in reply to the questions"

strengthen by providing with a back or backing

establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?"

shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed"

travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree"

cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot"

support financial backing for; "back this enterprise"

be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"

be in back of; "My garage backs their yard"

Synonyms:

• a priori,
• a rebours,
• a reculons,
• abandon,
• abet,
• accented,
• acknowledgments,
• advance,
• advocate,
• affirm,
• afford support,
• aft,
• after,
• aftermost,
• afterpart,
• afterpiece,
• again,
• against the grain,
• ago,
• aid,
• alpenstock,
• alveolar,
• alveolar ridge,
• alveolus,
• angel,
• ante,
• ante up,
• anticlockwise,
• apex,
• apical,
• apico-alveolar,
• apico-dental,
• arear,
• arena,
• arm,
• around,
• arrested,
• articulated,
• arytenoid cartilages,
• ascend,
• ascender,
• ascending,
• aside,
• ass-backwards,
• assimilated,
• assist,
• assure,
• astern,
• athletic supporter,
• attest,
• authenticate,
• away,
• axial,
• back away,
• back door,
• back matter,
• back of beyond,
• back off,
• back seat,
• back side,
• back up,
• back when,
• back-country,
• back-flowing,
• backbone,
• backdrop,
• background,
• backing,
• backpedal,
• backside,
• backstop,
• backtrack,
• backtrail,
• backward,
• backwards,
• backwater,
• backwood,
• backwoods,
• backwoodsy,
• bandeau,
• bankroll,
• bankrupt,
• barytone,
• bastard title,
• bastard type,
• be sponsor for,
• bear,
• bear out,
• bear up,
• beard,
• bearer,
• behind,
• behindhand,
• belated,
• belly,
• bestraddle,
• bestride,
• bet,
• bet on,
• bevel,
• bibliography,
• bilabial,
• black letter,
• blade,
• blocked,
• board,
• body,
• bolster,
• bolster up,
• bond,
• boost,
• bra,
• brace,
• bracer,
• bracket,
• brassiere,
• break,
• breech,
• broad,
• budge,
• buoy up,
• buttress,
• by,
• cacuminal,
• call,
• cane,
• cap,
• capital,
• capitalize,
• carrier,
• carry,
• case,
• cast off,
• catch line,
• catchword,
• central,
• cerebral,
• certify,
• cervix,
• champion,
• change,
• change place,
• chasing,
• checked,
• circle,
• circumstantiate,
• climb,
• climb on,
• close,
• colophon,
• come after,
• come last,
• commend,
• confirm,
• consonant,
• consonantal,
• contents,
• contents page,
• continuant,
• copyright page,
• corroborate,
• corset,
• counter,
• counterclockwise,
• countermarch,
• countersecure,
• cover,
• cradle,
• crook,
• crush,
• crutch,
• cry up,
• cushion,
• deceitfully,
• dedication,
• defeat,
• delayed,
• delayed-action,
• dental,
• deny,
• descend,
• descender,
• descending,
• destroy,
• detained,
• disavow,
• disown,
• disregard,
• dissimilated,
• distance,
• distant,
• document,
• dorsal,
• dorsal region,
• dorsum,
• down-trending,
• downward,
• drifting,
• due,
• early,
• ebb,
• elect,
• em,
• en,
• encourage,
• endleaf,
• endorse,
• endpaper,
• endsheet,
• ensure,
• errata,
• ex post facto,
• extremity,
• face,
• fade,
• fail,
• fall astern,
• fall back,
• fall behind,
• fat-faced type,
• feet,
• field,
• finance,
• flat,
• flow,
• flowing,
• fluent,
• flying,
• flyleaf,
• folio,
• follow,
• following,
• font,
• for a consideration,
• fore edge,
• foreword,
• forsake,
• fortify,
• foundation garment,
• fro,
• front,
• front matter,
• frontier,
• fulcrum,
• fund,
• furtively,
• gamble,
• get behind,
• get in,
• get in behind,
• get on,
• get over,
• girdle,
• give support,
• glide,
• glossal,
• glottal,
• go,
• go aboard,
• go around,
• go astern,
• go back,
• go back on,
• go backwards,
• go into reverse,
• go on board,
• go round,
• go sideways,
• going,
• gone by,
• groove,
• ground,
• grubstake,
• guarantee,
• guaranty,
• guttural,
• guy,
• guywire,
• gyrate,
• gyrational,
• gyratory,
• half-title page,
• hard,
• hard palate,
• hard pressed,
• hazard,
• head,
• heavy,
• heel,
• held up,
• help,
• helpless,
• high,
• hind,
• hind end,
• hind part,
• hinder,
• hindermost,
• hindhand,
• hindhead,
• hindmost,
• hindward,
• hindwards,
• hinterland,
• hold,
• hold up,
• hop in,
• hung up,
• hype,
• ignore,
• imprint,
• in a bind,
• in abeyance,
• in arrear,
• in arrears,
• in back of,
• in compensation,
• in consideration,
• in reserve,
• in return,
• in reverse,
• in times past,
• index,
• inscription,
• insidiously,
• insure,
• into the past,
• intonated,
• introduction,
• invest in,
• isolated,
• italic,
• jammed,
• jock,
• jockstrap,
• jump in,
• keep afloat,
• keep up,
• labial,
• labiodental,
• labiovelar,
• lag behind,
• larynx,
• late,
• lateral,
• latish,
• lax,
• lay,
• lay a wager,
• lay down,
• leaf,
• lend support,
• letter,
• ligature,
• light,
• lingual,
• lips,
• liquid,
• locale,
• logotype,
• loin,
• low,
• lower case,
• mainstay,
• maintain,
• maintainer,
• majuscule,
• make a bet,
• make sternway,
• makeup,
• mast,
• master,
• mature,
• meet a bet,
• mid,
• minuscule,
• mise-en-scene,
• monophthongal,
• moratory,
• mount,
• mounting,
• move,
• move over,
• muted,
• narrow,
• nasal,
• nasal cavity,
• nasalized,
• neck,
• never on time,
• nick,
• nominate,
• obstructed,
• occiput,
• occlusive,
• open,
• oral cavity,
• outback,
• outlandish,
• outlying,
• outstanding,
• overcome,
• overdue,
• owed,
• owing,
• oxytone,
• page,
• palatal,
• palatalized,
• palate,
• parlay,
• pass,
• passing,
• past due,
• patronize,
• pay for,
• payable,
• pharyngeal,
• pharyngeal cavity,
• pharyngealized,
• pharynx,
• phonemic,
• phonetic,
• phonic,
• pi,
• pica,
• pile in,
• pillow,
• pitch,
• pitched,
• play against,
• plug,
• plunge,
• plunging,
• point,
• posterior,
• postern,
• posttonic,
• preface,
• preliminaries,
• primitive,
• print,
• privately,
• probate,
• progress,
• progressive,
• promote,
• prop,
• prove,
• provide for,
• puff,
• punt,
• pursuing,
• rachis,
• ratify,
• raw,
• rear,
• rear end,
• rearmost,
• rearward,
• rearwards,
• receivable,
• recommend,
• recto,
• redeemable,
• refinance,
• reflex,
• reflowing,
• refluent,
• regress,
• regressive,
• reinforce,
• reinforcement,
• reinforcer,
• reject,
• reminiscently,
• remote,
• renege,
• repudiate,
• rest,
• resting place,
• retarded,
• retract,
• retrad,
• retral,
• retreat,
• retroactive,
• retroactively,
• retrocede,
• retroflex,
• retrograde,
• retrogress,
• retrogressive,
• retrospective,
• retrospectively,
• reverse,
• reversed,
• reverso,
• revert,
• ridge,
• rigging,
• rigidify,
• rise,
• rising,
• roman,
• rotary,
• rotate,
• rotational,
• rotatory,
• rough,
• round,
• round about,
• rounded,
• ruin,
• run,
• run interference for,
• running,
• running title,
• rushing,
• sans serif,
• scene,
• screw up,
• script,
• second,
• secretly,
• secure,
• see,
• semivowel,
• service,
• set up,
• setting,
• shank,
• shift,
• shore,
• shore up,
• shoulder,
• shroud,
• side with,
• sideward,
• sign,
• sign for,
• signature,
• since,
• sink,
• sinking,
• slow,
• slyly,
• small cap,
• small capital,
• sneakily,
• soar,
• soaring,
• soft,
• soft palate,
• sonant,
• speak highly of,
• speak warmly of,
• speak well of,
• speech organ,
• spin,
• spinal column,
• spine,
• sponsor,
• sprit,
• staff,
• stage,
• stage set,
• stage setting,
• stake,
• stamp,
• stand back of,
• stand behind,
• stand by,
• stand pat,
• stand up for,
• standing rigging,
• stave,
• stay,
• stem,
• stern,
• stick,
• stick by,
• stick up for,
• stiffen,
• stiffener,
• stir,
• stopped,
• stream,
• streaming,
• strengthen,
• strengthener,
• stressed,
• strong,
• subscribe to,
• subside,
• subsidize,
• substantiate,
• subtitle,
• subvene,
• subvention,
• support,
• supporter,
• surd,
• surreptitiously,
• sustain,
• sustainer,
• syllabic,
• sylvan,
• syrinx,
• table of contents,
• tail,
• tail end,
• tailpiece,
• take sides with,
• tardy,
• teeth,
• teeth ridge,
• tense,
• text,
• theater,
• thick,
• throaty,
• tighten,
• tip,
• title,
• title page,
• to the rear,
• tonal,
• tongue,
• tonic,
• tout,
• trail,
• trail behind,
• travel,
• treacherously,
• trice up,
• trim size,
• turned around,
• twangy,
• type,
• type body,
• type class,
• type lice,
• type page,
• typecase,
• typeface,
• typefounders,
• typefoundry,
• unaccented,
• uncivilized,
• uncultivated,
• underbrace,
• undergird,
• underlie,
• underpin,
• underset,
• undersign,
• underwrite,
• undeveloped,
• uninhabited,
• unoccupied,
• unpaid,
• unpopulated,
• unpunctual,
• unready,
• unrounded,
• unsettled,
• unstressed,
• untimely,
• up-country,
• up-trending,
• upbear,
• uphold,
• upholder,
• upkeep,
• upper case,
• upward,
• validate,
• vanquish,
• velar,
• velum,
• verify,
• verso,
• vertebrae,
• vertebral column,
• virgin,
• vocal chink,
• vocal cords,
• vocal folds,
• vocal processes,
• vocalic,
• vocoid,
• voice box,
• voiced,
• voiceless,
• vote,
• vowel,
• vowellike,
• wager,
• walking stick,
• wane,
• warrant,
• waste,
• weak,
• whirl,
• widdershins,
• wide,
• wild,
• wilderness,
• withdraw from,
• without hope,
• woodland,
• wrong-way,
• wrong-way around