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back-built

back-built is the simple past and past participle of back-build.

Meaning of back-build

Verb

back-build (third-person singular simple present back-builds, present participle back-building, simple past and past participle back-built)

  1. Of a thunderstorm or supercell, to generates new cells on the side opposite its direction of movement.

Questions about back-built

What is back-built the simple past and past participle of?
Back-built is the simple past and past participle of back-build.

Words near back-built in the dictionary

  1. back-bones
  2. back-breaking
  3. back-build
  4. back-building
  5. back-builds
  6. back-built
  7. back-burn
  8. back-burner
  9. back-burnered
  10. back-burnering
  11. back-burners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-built (page history and authors); back-build (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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