"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 formed with \"back\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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 formed with \"back\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}