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backpatched

backpatched is the simple past and past participle of backpatch.

Meaning of backpatch

Verb

backpatch (third-person singular simple present backpatches, present participle backpatching, simple past and past participle backpatched)

  1. To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code.

Questions about backpatched

What is backpatched the simple past and past participle of?
Backpatched is the simple past and past participle of backpatch.

Words near backpatched in the dictionary

  1. backpains
  2. backpass
  3. backpasses
  4. backpat
  5. backpatch
  6. backpatched
  7. backpatches
  8. backpatching
  9. backpats
  10. backpatted
  11. backpatting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backpatched (page history and authors); backpatch (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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