View synonyms for back up

back up

verb

tr to support or assist
intr cricket (of a nonstriking batsman) to move down the wicket in readiness for a run as a ball is bowled
(of water) to accumulate
(of traffic) to become jammed behind an accident or other obstruction
computing to make a copy of (a data file), esp for storage in another place as a security copy
printing to print the second side of (a sheet)
intr,usually foll byon to repeat an action immediately

a support or reinforcement
1. a reserve or substitute
2. ( as modifier )
  backup troops
1. musical accompaniment, esp for a pop singer
2. ( as modifier )
  backup singer
the overflow from a blocked drain or pipe
computing a file or set of files copied for security purposes

But it sparked back up again throughout November and December.

He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

That desperate, honest, human voice, a voice willing to see change, or die, but in any event never to back up again.

She agreed to meet with tabloid editors in New York City and take a lie detector test to back up her claims.

It too had been built back up, and the six or eight tall spindly French summer homes have been rebuilt.

Back up against me, Gale directed, and let me see if I can get the rope off your hands first.

It is a common practice in erecting buildings with a facing of Kentish rag rubble to back up the stonework with bricks.

He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine.

Suddenly she paused, looked back up the slope, and cried, “Do you suppose this brook is that spring?”

I could stand in his two hands as he held them in front of him and urged everybody to back up the war as strongly as I was backed.

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