Antonyms for back up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bak

Phonetic Transcription : bæk

Definition of back up

Origin : 1767, "stand behind and support," from back (v.) + up. The noun meaning "standby, reserve" is recorded from 1952 (often written as one word, backup); specific reference to computing is from 1965.

verb move backward
verb support

Example sentences :

The law said it was his and he had the might to back up the law.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

Why you'd put any other man's back up until he broke his spine.
Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various

I felt ready in my own mind to back up every assertion of Schomberg's and on any subject.
Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad

It was impossible for the truck containing the engineers to back up.
Extract from : « The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service » by James R. Driscoll

Then that one below there will back up and hitch on at the eastern end.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

Tex didn't git Purdy—but they was five more of us there to back up his play.
Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx

There have been many indications of that tendency from years back up to the present.
Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman

And I put my back up to the wall and cast my cloak back over my shoulder.
Extract from : « Sir Ludar » by Talbot Baines Reed

It was the duty of everybody to back up Tempest and make it hot for Jarman.
Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed

For a minute he had me where I could n't go ahead nor back up.
Extract from : « The Wrong Woman » by Charles D. Stewart

Synonyms for back up

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