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"text": "We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.",
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"(idiomatic, intransitive) To reconsider one's thoughts."
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"text": "Back up your documents folder before applying the update.",
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"sense": "To copy as a security measure",
"word": "де́лать резе́рвное копи́рование"
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"text": "Thank you for backing me up. I know it's not easy delivering bad news-especially to a friend-but sometimes it's the only way we can move forward and begin to heal.",
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"ref": "2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "mennä hilan taakse"
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"ref": "1995, \"Oubliette\" (episode of The X-Files TV series)",
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"(obsolete, printing) To run a printing press in reverse."
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zadkavacʹ",
"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
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"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
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"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
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"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
"word": "reculer"
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"roman": "davátʹ zádnij xod",
"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
"word": "дава́ть за́дний ход"
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"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
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"sense": "To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so",
"word": "bacio i fyny"
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"sense": "To move a vehicle backwards",
"word": "achteruitrijden"
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"sense": "To move a vehicle backwards",
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"sense": "To move a vehicle backwards",
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"sense": "To move a vehicle backwards",
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"roman": "dvígatʹsja nazád",
"sense": "To move a vehicle backwards",
"word": "дви́гаться наза́д"
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"sense": "To move a vehicle backwards",
"word": "дава́ть за́дний ход"
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"sense": "To move a vehicle backwards",
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"sense": "To copy as a security measure",
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"sense": "To copy as a security measure",
"word": "ამარქაფებს"
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"sense": "To copy as a security measure",
"word": "სარეზერვო ასლს ქმნის"
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"sense": "To copy as a security measure",
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"sense": "To copy as a security measure",
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"word": "bacio i fyny"
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"sense": "To provide support to",
"word": "bacio i fyny"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch",
"word": "ottaa muutama askel taaksepäin"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket",
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