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Back up   /bæk əp/   Listen
Back up

verb
1.
Give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to.  Synonym: support.  "Her children always backed her up"
2.
Move backwards from a certain position.  Synonyms: back down, back off.
3.
Establish as valid or genuine.  Synonym: back.
4.
Make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy.
5.
Become or cause to become obstructed.  Synonyms: choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul.  "The water pipe is backed up"  Antonym: unclog.





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"Back up" Quotes from Famous Books



... did!" Raggedy Ann replied. "And when we jumped into bed, we remembered that we had left Raggedy Andy's arm lying up on the attic floor, so we had to run back up there and get ...
— Raggedy Andy Stories • Johnny Gruelle
... as if 'mild, ethereal spring' had got her back up," Burt remarked, "and regarding the return of winter as a trespass, had taken him by the throat, determined to have it out once for all. Something will give way before morning, ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... one of the men. "Take him back up, Jim. Anyway, you 'ain't yet told us his name, and how kin any little shaver walk which ain't ...
— Bruvver Jim's Baby • Philip Verrill Mighels
... brown rocks; as you sink from ledge to ledge in the writhing and twisting steamer, you have a vague sense that all this is perhaps an achievement rather than an enjoyment. When, descending the Long Sault, you look back up hill, and behold those billows leaping down the steep slope after you, "No doubt," you confide to your soul, "it is magnificent; but it is not pleasure." You greet with silent satisfaction the level river, stretching between the Long Sault and the Coteau, and you admire the delightful ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... you back home, Dele," said Mr. Dougherty, "and then I'll drop back up to Seltzer's with the boys. You can have swell chuck to-night if you want it. I made a winning on Anaconda yesterday; so you can go as ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry


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