back_up

[back_up]

Give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"

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

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become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

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make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security cop; "You''d better back up these files!"

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move backwards from a certain position; "The bully had to back down"

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give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"

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Usage Examples

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

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