backed English

Meaning backed meaning

What does backed mean?

backed

— adjective having a back or backing, usually of a specified type

— adjective used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light

Synonyms backed synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as backed?

backed English » English

supported

sheathed

sealed

propped

paved

covered

coated

clad

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How do I use backed in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom backed his car out of the garage.

Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.

To Bob's disappointment, several of those who had promised to help him afterwards backed out.

That kid was almost run over when the truck backed up.

They backed him up in everything.

They backed me up in everything.

She backed out at the last moment.

Tom backed away.

Tom backed up his data.

Tom backed out at the last moment.

Tom backed off.

Tom backed out at the last minute.

The traffic was backed up for miles.

Tom backed into his parking space.

He backed abruptly away.

She backed her car into the garage.

Tom instinctively backed away.

Tom slowly backed away.

Tom tried to kiss Mary, but she backed away.

Tom backed everything up on an external hard drive.

I backed away.

Tom backed out of the room.

Movie subtitles

But he grabbed me here, pushed me up against the bunk, and then he backed off.

I mean, maybe if he backed off and let me come to him, maybe I would think about it.

The military rebellion backed by Hitler and Mussolini seeks to bring back the privileges of the rich.

And he backed away from it step by step, right up to the window.

Jump, you gray-backed beggars!

You got the mayor and Hartwell backed up against the wall.

My future father-in-law has never backed a loser. You know that.

Pot full of grease-backed bat.

She'd backed the sedan in, just the way I told her to.

Who backed me up?

The militarists, backed by industry, seized Manchuria from China.

If you'd only backed the car!

It is backed like a weasel.

Engineer backed his string of empty coaches into the danger zone and the hurricane hit.

He's General Fleury's man and he's backed by the Emperor.

Did you hit him? - Pot full of grease-backed bat.

I'm not going to take it haunch-backed like the rest around here.

There's only one thing that'll pull the market together,.and that is a denial backed with suppression, total and permanent. - Hello, Mottram.

They were probably struggling when she backed into the fireplace and grabbed the poker.

We could have backed him up.

Mr Keith backed you up.

Park it at the station, backed in.

But there's no place for your mother to go, now that Nellie's backed out.

You got the mayor and Hartwell backed up against a wall.

I'm backed up in a dark corner and I don't know who's hitting me.

The show was backed by Rienzi over three years ago.

Oh, it's the only show Rienzi backed. He insisted Sally be in it.

Through the solidarity of seafarers themselves, backed by the S.I.U..

I was wondering what that chap you backed into told his wife.

Last night, when I tried to take her to the Lombardy Club, she backed off.

News and current affairs

The recommendation to enlarge the SDR basket has been warmly backed by Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, and a final decision by the Fund's executive board is expected at the end of the month.

Iran backed the US during the first Gulf War, but was left out of the Madrid peace conference.

The UN General Assembly backed many of the project's recommendations, which were then implemented in numerous low-income countries.

The US then backed Saddam Hussein in his attack on Iran, until the US ended up attacking Saddam himself.

The US backed Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan against the Soviets, until the US ended up fighting bin Laden.

It may make sense for central banks (or Fannie Mae, America's major government-sponsored mortgage company) to buy mortgage-backed securities in order to help provide market liquidity.

Declining house prices are key to the financial crisis and the outlook for the economy, because mortgage-backed securities, and the derivatives based on them, are the primary assets that are weakening financial institutions.

Historically, cease-fires have survived only when they are backed by talks that both parties believe are genuine and serious.

A US-backed Israeli-Syrian peace could transform the strategic environment, potentially drawing other Middle East spoilers into a system of regional cooperation and security.

Poor countries are typically at a huge disadvantage in bargaining with big multinational lenders, which are usually backed by powerful home-country governments.

On the contrary, you will seek to hedge your bets by ensuring that citizenship is constituted by individual rights of participation in collective projects, backed up by a legal system that guarantees these rights.

Through trial and error - backed by a durable political and economic system - the US prevailed and the Soviet Union disintegrated.

Indeed, Abe's visit to Yasukuni came only a day after he completed a long-elusive, US-backed bilateral deal to relocate America's airbase in Okinawa to a less populous area of the island.

Of course, international legitimacy can be a vacuous concept when not backed by the capacity to use effective force.

But it is just possible that unilateral Israeli policy, implicitly backed by the US, will create interim conditions of peace that are sufficient for economic growth to cool Palestinian nationalism.

For that to happen, Mogherini must assert herself as a leader, backed by Juncker and the new European Council president, Donald Tusk.

As a result, after only a year in power, the military - backed by the same secular, liberal young people who had opposed it in 2011 - drove President Mohamed Morsi out of power.

For decades, Western powers backed military regimes in the Arab world, willingly ignoring their systematic repression of democratic movements and rights, in order to ensure that Islamists did not gain power.

Their main arguments are reminiscent the arguments put forward by those who backed the Cuban Revolution.

Iran needs US airpower at least as much as the US needs Iranian-backed ground troops.

Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.

The success that US President George W. Bush and his special envoy, former Secretary of State James Baker, had in getting Iraq's foreign debts canceled or rescheduled shows what can be done when a policy is backed by political will.

The Republican-backed crusade against a key agreement negotiated by a Democratic president, with his party's overwhelming support, has threatened the bipartisan foundations of Israel's cause in America.

Similarly, Israel's government has backed itself into a domestic policy trap of its own.

South Korea has tightened its military alliance with the US, Japan has backed away from a move to get the US to move its Marine airbase out of Okinawa, and India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, among others, have drawn closer to the US.

Years of Western-backed repressive authoritarianism nipped in the bud any potential growth of a liberal alternative to the incumbent Arab regimes, and turned any abrupt move to free elections into a dangerous exercise in Islamic democracy.

At that point, government debt will no longer be backed up by taxpayers' assets.