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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"

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... our steps, rolling the stone, as it were, back up the mountain, determined to commit ourselves to the line of marked trees. These we finally reached, and, after exploring the country to the right, saw that bearing to the left was still the order. The ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... 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

... arrest him for it. When they did arrest him afterwards, they had to do it at night in a garden. He could have argued with them as he had often done in the temple, and justified himself both to the Jewish law and to Caesar. And he had physical force at his command to back up his arguments: all that was needed was a speech to rally his followers; and he was not gagged. The reply of the evangelists would have been that all these inquiries are idle, because if Jesus had wished to escape, he could have saved himself ...

— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw

... or his chums. In addition, his journalistic training had instilled deeply one of the first rules of the profession, accuracy, and to tell the truth he was rather ashamed to go to Colonel Snow with so little evidence to back up his story, and so he determined to "keep tabs," as he called it, on Monkey Rae, and knowing he could handle that young man physically to capture him redhanded and take him in dramatic ...

— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor

... little run towards the door, but, as Athelney Jones put his broad back up against it, he recognized ...

— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle

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