"beat back" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beats back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beating back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beaten back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "beat<,,beat,beaten:beat> back"
      },
      "expansion": "beat back (third-person singular simple present beats back, present participle beating back, simple past beat back, past participle beaten back or beat back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 13, in A Promised Land, Crown",
          "text": "I couldn't expect people to understand how much their voices actually meant to me—how they had sustained my spirits and beat back whispering doubts on those late, solitary nights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "But the Republican blockade in the Senate left Democrats without a clear path forward, and without a means to beat back the restrictive voting laws racing through Republican-led states.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fight against and cause to recede."
      ],
      "id": "en-beat_back-en-verb-KIQuWY8K",
      "links": [
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "recede",
          "recede"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To fight against and cause to recede."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat back"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beats back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beating back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beaten back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "beat<,,beat,beaten:beat> back"
      },
      "expansion": "beat back (third-person singular simple present beats back, present participle beating back, simple past beat back, past participle beaten back or beat back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 13, in A Promised Land, Crown",
          "text": "I couldn't expect people to understand how much their voices actually meant to me—how they had sustained my spirits and beat back whispering doubts on those late, solitary nights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "But the Republican blockade in the Senate left Democrats without a clear path forward, and without a means to beat back the restrictive voting laws racing through Republican-led states.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fight against and cause to recede."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "recede",
          "recede"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To fight against and cause to recede."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat back"
}