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back up

English

  1. 🔊 make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
    “You'd better back up these files!”
  2. 🔊 move backwards from a certain position
    “The bully had to back down”
  3. 🔊 establish as valid or genuine
    “Can you back up your claims?”
  4. 🔊 give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
    “She supported him during the illness”
  5. 🔊 become or cause to become obstructed
    “The leaves clog our drains in the Fall”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 reblar to back up, to go back, to step back, to move backward, to shrink back
  2. 🔊 retroceder to back up, to go back, to step back, to move backward, to shrink back

Similar words

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