Beat Back

Definition: Beat Back

Beat Back

Verb

1. Cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Beat Back

Defense

Verb: defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend round; (circumscribe); fence, entrench, intrench; guard; (keep safe); guard against; take care of; (vigilance); bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off, beat back; hinder.

Crosswords: Beat Back

We'll beat back the pain we've found ("Crush"; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beat back the hun with liberty bonds / F. Strothmann.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

‏تراجع عن الموضوع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отбивам (baffle, beat off, resist, serve, stop). (various references)

Chinese 

反�"� (counterattack, strike back). (various references)

Finnish

lyödä takaisin (hit back, repulse). (various references)

French

repousser (beat off). (various references)

German

zurückschlagen (beat off, beatback, fight back, flare back, fold back, hit back, kick, kickback, knock away, knock back, leaf back, pull back, repel, repulse, retaliate, return, roll back, strike back, swing back, to repulse, to strike back, turn down). (various references)

Manx

castey (appease, censor, check, choke back, contain, counter, cure, defeat, end, freeze, freeze as loan, hitch, inhibit, preclude, staunch, stave off, suppress, throwing stones), bwoaill er ash (kick back). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatbay ackbay

Romanian

respinge (alienate, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out). (various references)

Russian 

отражать (be representative of, beat off, fend, fend off, mirror, parry, reflect, reverberate, typify, ward off, warded). (various references)

Spanish

rechazar (ban, beat off, defeat, deny, deprecate, disallow, disavow, discard, disclaim, discourage, dismiss, disown, drive back, fend, fend off, fight off, hand off, hold off, negative, overrule, Parry, pass up, press back, push back, put aside, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, say no to, scout, set aside, Spike, spurn, stave off, stem, throw back, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn down, vote down, vote out, ward off, wave aside, wave away). (various references)

Turkish

geri püskürtmek. (various references)

Ukranian 

відбивати (beat, fend off, image, imprint, mirror, reflect, repulse, reverberate, shed). (various references)

reverberare. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: backbeat.

-3 letters: aback, abate, aceta, babka, kabab, kebab.

-4 letters: abba, abbe, abet, acta, baba, babe, back, bake, bate, beak, beat, beck, beta, cake, cate, kata, tace, tack, taka, take, teak.

-5 letters: aba, ace, act, ate, baa, bat, bet, cab, cat, eat, ebb, eta, kab, kae, kat, kea, tab, tae, tea.

+1 letter: backbeats.

+3 letters: backstabbed, backstabber.

+4 letters: backstabbers.

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