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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" Antonym: unclog.

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"Back up" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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 guard presenting arms, and circled the parade ...

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

... corruption of religion and the laws, and the enormous increase of the extent of the last-named, gave very great and frequent occasion for disputes and altercations impossible to allay. (21) When men begin to quarrel with all the ardour of superstition, and the magistracy to back up one side or the other, they can never come to a compromise, but are ...

— A Theologico-Political Treatise [Part IV] • Benedict de Spinoza

... arranged from the pianoforte score, into the cities of the West, and brought down a deal of unmerited criticism on the innocent head of M. Delibes. In the season of 1884-1885 Colonel Mapleson came back to the Academy with vouchers of various sorts to back up a promise to give the opera. There was a human voucher in the person of Miss Emma Nevada, who had also enjoyed the instruction of the composer and who had trunkfuls and trunkfuls and trunkfuls of ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... to," she answered. "And you be bound on much the same errand, though you'd deny it if your face could back up your tongue." ...

— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... into the dressing-room, and it was then Banks stopped and brought out the loose change in his pockets. There was a ten dollar piece, to which he added two and a half in silver. He started back up the room, but the girl had disappeared, and, while he stood hesitating, a ...

— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

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