"backed" meaning in English

See backed in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /bækt/ Audio: en-us-backed.ogg
Rhymes: -ækt Etymology: From back (noun) + -ed. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en||ed}} + -ed Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} backed (not comparable)
  1. (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete, slang
    Sense id: en-backed-en-adj-~fpHwcwL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ed, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 14 17 2 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ed: 52 24 24 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 64 15 22 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 73 14 14 0
  2. (in combination) Having specified type of back. Tags: in-compounds, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-backed-en-adj-wgdePkQ6
  3. (in combination) Having specified type of backing. Tags: in-compounds, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-backed-en-adj-nj9Gw4fm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /bækt/ Audio: en-us-backed.ogg
Rhymes: -ækt Etymology: From back (verb). Etymology templates: {{qualifier|verb}} (verb) Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} backed
  1. simple past and past participle of back Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: back
    Sense id: en-backed-en-verb-F5IDp7rM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1
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      "word": "black-backed grosbeak"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "olive-backed sunbird"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "olive-backed thrush"
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      "word": "purple-backed fairywren"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "red-backed fairywren"
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      "word": "red-backed hawk"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "red-backed sea eagle"
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      "word": "red-backed shrike"
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      "word": "roach-backed"
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      "word": "rufous-backed antvireo"
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      "word": "rufous-backed fantail"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "russet-backed thrush"
    },
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      "word": "saddle-backed"
    },
    {
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      "word": "saddle-backed bush cricket"
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      "word": "shield-backed bug"
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      "word": "silver-backed fox"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "slaty-backed gull"
    },
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      "word": "spot-backed antshrike"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "sticky-backed plastic"
    },
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      "word": "stiff-backed"
    },
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      "word": "streak-backed antshrike"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "sway-backed"
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      "word": "unbacked"
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      "word": "whale-backed"
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      "word": "white-backed black tit"
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      "word": "mossbacked"
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    {
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      "word": "paperbacked"
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          "text": "He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.",
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          "text": "a high-backed chair"
        },
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          "text": "sway-backed"
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        {
          "text": "red-backed shrike"
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        "(in combination) Having specified type of back."
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          "text": "Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.",
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      "word": "backed blade"
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      "word": "black-backed antshrike"
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      "word": "factory-backed"
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      "word": "grey red-backed vole"
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      "word": "lesser black-backed gull"
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      "word": "olive-backed oriole"
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    {
      "word": "olive-backed sunbird"
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    {
      "word": "olive-backed thrush"
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      "word": "purple-backed fairywren"
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      "word": "red-backed sea eagle"
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      "word": "russet-backed thrush"
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      "word": "shield-backed bug"
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      "word": "silver-backed fox"
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      "word": "slaty-backed gull"
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    {
      "word": "spot-backed antshrike"
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      "word": "sticky-backed plastic"
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          "text": "Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.