backpedal
backstep
crab
retrovert
retake
retrograde
retreat
fall back upon
retrogress
retrocede
draw back
retrorsal
go back
recede
screw
trace
resort
retrace
untread
back off
straight-backed
reel
retropose
uncrook
refit
retrodisplace
re-
hash over
rehash
pack up
dos a dos
retrude
unclimb
shrink back
head off
unhoist
recessive
spill
relapse
low-cut
recarry
move back
pull away
revolute
withdraw
retrieve
pull back
retrofocus
downturn
take water
retire
fall back
turn out
rotate
hind
splay
endward
spread out
loosen
recline
backgain
retrad
sweptback
ana-
retrocedent
impound
set back
retrocessive
swaybacked
relive
unback
reslot
arseling
turn back
uncouple
reverted
retrotort
shrink
rock
reoperate
rebound
remount
rake over old coals
retroduct
back
sway
relax
shake
retrorsal
straight-backed
recessive
low-cut
hind
backgain
retrad
sweptback
retrocedent
retrocessive
swaybacked
reverted
dos a dos
endward
arseling
backstep
screw
backpedal
backstep
crab
retrovert
retake
retrograde
retreat
fall back upon
retrogress
retrocede
draw back
go back
recede
screw
trace
resort
retrace
untread
back off
reel
retropose
uncrook
refit
retrodisplace
hash over
rehash
pack up
retrude
unclimb
shrink back
head off
unhoist
spill
relapse
recarry
move back
pull away
revolute
withdraw
retrieve
pull back
retrofocus
downturn
take water
retire
fall back
turn out
rotate
splay
spread out
loosen
recline
impound
set back
relive
unback
reslot
turn back
uncouple
retrotort
shrink
rock
reoperate
rebound
remount
rake over old coals
retroduct
back
sway
relax
shake
verb
- To take a step backwards
- To retract or take back.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
noun
- A step backwards
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
verb
- To back out of something.
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- move back
- pull back or move away or backward
- move away, as for privacy
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
noun
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
verb
adj
verb
- To screw back.
- To contort.
- To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
noun
- Backspin.
- Salary, wages.
- An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A prison guard.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- A small packet of tobacco.
- A ship's propeller.
- An Archimedes screw.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- Rheumatism.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- An amphipod crustacean.
verb
- to go back over again
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- discover traces of
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
noun
- a just detectable amount
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
verb
- To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- To wind on a reel.
- To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- To be in shock.
noun
- A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
- A shaky or unsteady gait.
verb
- To fit again; to put back into its place.
- To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
- To fit out or supply again (with something).
- To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
noun
verb
adv
noun
- A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.
- A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
verb
verb
- To come undone.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
verb
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- withdraw from active participation
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- cause to be returned
- take back what one has said
- keep away from others
- break from a meeting or gathering
- retire gracefully
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- lose interest
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- withdraw from active participation
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- lose interest
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- cause to get out
- prepare for sleep
verb
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- prove to be in the result or end
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- result or end
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- bring forth
- put out or expel from a place
- come and gather for a public event
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- get up and out of bed
adj
adv
verb
noun
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- pitching dangerously to one side
verb
- To jump up or get back up again.
- To bound or spring back from a force.
- To send back; to reverberate.
- To give back an echo.
noun
- A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- An effort to recover from a setback.
- The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
- A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.
- An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
- The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
postp
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
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