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Definitions of back up:

verb: make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security cop
Example: "You'd better back up these files!"
verb: move backwards from a certain position
verb: establish as valid or genuine
Example: "Can you back up your claims?"
verb: give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
verb: become or cause to become obstructed

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to back up: (212 results)
Synonyms:
backmost, hindermost, hindmost, noncurrent, posterior, rear, rearmost, rearward, backbone, backrest, back up, backward, backwards, bet on, binding, book binding, cover, dorsum, endorse, gage, game, hind, hinder, indorse, in reply, plump for, plunk for, punt, rearwards, second, spinal column, spine, stake, substantiate, support, vertebral column

Contains:
canalis vertebralis, coccyx, dorsal vertebra, lat, latisimus dorsi, lumbar vertebra, saddle, small, spinal canal, tail bone, vertebra, vertebral canal

Part of:
axial skeleton, body, car seat, chair, torso, trunk, volume

More general:
bet, body part, change over, cloth covering, finance, footballer, football player, lie, place, position, protection, protective covering, reenforce, reinforce, shift, side, skeletal structure, strengthen, switch, turn around, wager

More specific:
after part, ante, back out, cantle, champion, chine, defend, double up, empennage, field general, fullback, guarantee, halfback, half binding, ladder-back, notochord, parlay, poop, quarter, quarterback, root, running back, signal caller, stern, tail assembly, tail, tailback, three-quarter binding, vouch, warrant, wingback

Antonyms:
advance, front, ahead, bring forward, face, forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, look

Often used in the same context:
me, again, time, home, up, out, that, away, now, down, way, alone, go, here, do, it, return, more, on, say, head, all, gone, pain, right, thing, man, him, us, around, friends, girl, wrong, good, too, done, leave, off, cry, this, door, hurt, long, need, bad, fast, great, phone, school, behind, chance, change, own, road, stop, understand, free, hair, laugh, left, past, two, arms, before, fire, said, same, think, truth, close, nice, soon, them, word, by, else, lost, name, real, room, talk, times, am, easy, fall, far, forget, late, old, wall, act, apart, bed

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