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backspaced

backspaced is the simple past and past participle of backspace.

Meaning of backspace

Verb

backspace (third-person singular simple present backspaces, present participle backspacing, simple past and past participle backspaced)

  1. To remove a character behind a cursor.
    • So once you hit 'E', just backspace.2024 April 17, SMii7Y, 1:20 from the start, in Content Warning Footage That Should Never Be Uploaded, spoken by SMii7Y
  2. To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.

See all 5 meanings of backspace

Questions about backspaced

What is backspaced the simple past and past participle of?
Backspaced is the simple past and past participle of backspace.

Words near backspaced in the dictionary

  1. backsourced
  2. backsources
  3. backsourcing
  4. backspace
  5. backspaceable
  6. backspaced
  7. backspacer
  8. backspacers
  9. backspaces
  10. backspacing
  11. backspang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backspaced (page history and authors); backspace (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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