back and fill in English

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    {
      "form": "back and fills",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "back and filling",
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    },
    {
      "form": "back and filled",
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        "To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind."
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        "(nautical) To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind."
      ],
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        "To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny."
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        "(figurative) To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back and fill"
}

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      "form": "back and fills",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      "form": "back and filling",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "back and filled",
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        "past"
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      "form": "back and filled",
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        "To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind."
      ],
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        [
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          "sail"
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        "(nautical) To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny."
      ],
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        "(figurative) To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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  "word": "back and fill"
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"back and fill" meaning in English

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Inflected forms