See aback on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1815, David Laurie, A Treatise on Finance, under which, the General Interests of the British Empire are Illustrated, Glasgow: Chapman, page 322:",
"text": "The mild, though licentious reign, of Louis the Sixteenth, threw France far aback, in her ambitious career; but it gave birth to that revolution, wherein, her warlike propensities and territorial resources were unfolded with tenfold efficacy.",
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"ref": "1889, William Morris, A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark, London: Reeves & Turner, page 31:",
"text": "Then stopped, and bounded aback, and away as if in fear, / That I saw her no more; then I wondered though sitting close anear / Was a she-wolf great and grisly.",
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"Towards the back or rear; backwards."
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"w:Shorter Oxford English Dictionary"
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"(archaic) Towards the back or rear; backwards."
],
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "om",
"lang": "Afan Oromo",
"sense": "backwards",
"word": "rifachuu"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"word": "na'uu"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔilā l-ḵalf",
"sense": "backwards",
"word": "إِلَى اَلْخَلْف"
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"code": "bn",
"english": "pechon dike",
"lang": "Bengali",
"sense": "backwards",
"word": "পেছন দিকে"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "obak",
"sense": "backwards",
"word": "অবাক"
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"roman": "nazad",
"sense": "backwards",
"word": "назад"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "da",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "baglæns"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "achterwaarts"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "rugwaarts"
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "malantaŭen"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "tagasi"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"word": "tagaspidi"
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"word": "tagurpidi"
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"word": "takaisin"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "taaksepäin"
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "en arrière"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "rückwärts"
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"sense": "backwards",
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"word": "पीछ॓ की ओर"
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"word": "बोचक्क"
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "indietro"
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"sense": "backwards",
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"word": "артқа"
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"word": "atpakaļ"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"word": "جاخوردن"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "یکه خوردن"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "غافلگیرشدن"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "pl",
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"word": "wstecz"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "do tyłu"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "atrás"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "para trás"
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "наза́д"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
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"sense": "backwards",
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"roman": "venakki",
"sense": "backwards",
"word": "వెనక్కి"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"sense": "backwards",
"word": "geriye"
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"_dis1": "80 2 1 17",
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"text": "There are so many canes upon Reliance that the labourers could not cut those aback, as they prefer cutting those in front. The cane fields aback were in cultivation last year.",
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"ref": "1815, David Laurie, A Treatise on Finance, under which, the General Interests of the British Empire are Illustrated, Glasgow: Chapman, page 322:",
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"ref": "1889, William Morris, A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark, London: Reeves & Turner, page 31:",
"text": "Then stopped, and bounded aback, and away as if in fear, / That I saw her no more; then I wondered though sitting close anear / Was a she-wolf great and grisly.",
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"ref": "1840, “Proceedings of an Inquiry held at plantation Reliance, in the county of Essequibo”, in Papers Relative to the West Indies, 1841: British Guiana, London: H.M.S.O., published 1841, page 201:",
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"ref": "1841, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-book, Boston: Little & Brown, page 144:",
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"ref": "2001, Russell Drumm, The Barque of Saviors, Houghton Mifflin, page 91:",
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}
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ais\"}, {\"code\": \"sh\", \"lang\": \"Serbo-Croatian\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"tags\": [\"Cyrillic\"], \"word\": \"у̀наза̄д\"}, {\"code\": \"sh\", \"lang\": \"Serbo-Croatian\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"tags\": [\"Cyrillic\"], \"word\": \"на̏за̄д\"}, {\"code\": \"sh\", \"lang\": \"Serbo-Croatian\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"tags\": [\"Cyrillic\"], \"word\": \"на̏тра̄г\"}, {\"code\": \"sh\", \"lang\": \"Serbo-Croatian\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"tags\": [\"Roman\"], \"word\": \"ùnazād\"}, {\"code\": \"sh\", \"lang\": \"Serbo-Croatian\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"tags\": [\"Roman\"], \"word\": \"nȁzād\"}, {\"code\": \"sh\", \"lang\": \"Serbo-Croatian\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"tags\": [\"Roman\"], \"word\": \"nȁtrāg\"}, {\"code\": \"sk\", \"lang\": \"Slovak\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"word\": \"naspäť\"}, {\"code\": \"es\", \"lang\": \"Spanish\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", \"word\": \"atrás\"}, {\"code\": \"es\", \"lang\": \"Spanish\", \"sense\": \"backwards\", 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