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backburners

backburners is the plural of backburner.

backburners is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backburner.

Meaning of backburner

Verb

backburner (third-person singular simple present backburners, present participle backburnering, simple past and past participle backburnered)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To relegate to a lower priority.
    • "What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC.2013, Lorna Stewart, BBC News, Love letters and kindness may improve mental health

Questions about backburners

What is backburners the plural of?
Backburners is the plural of backburner.

Words near backburners in the dictionary

  1. backburn
  2. backburned
  3. backburner
  4. backburnered
  5. backburnering
  6. backburners
  7. backburning
  8. backburns
  9. backburnt
  10. backcalculate
  11. backcalculated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backburners (page history and authors); backburner (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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