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beaten back

beaten back is the past participle of beat back.

Meaning of beat back

Verb

beat back (third-person singular simple present beats back, present participle beating back, simple past beat back, past participle beaten back or beat back)

  1. (transitive) To fight against and cause to recede.
    • I couldn't expect people to understand how much their voices actually meant to me—how they had sustained my spirits and beat back whispering doubts on those late, solitary nights.2020, Barack Obama, chapter 13, in A Promised Land, Crown

Questions about beaten back

What is beaten back the past participle of?
Beaten back is the past participle of beat back.

Words near beaten back in the dictionary

  1. beaten about
  2. beaten about the bush
  3. beaten all
  4. beaten around the bush
  5. beaten as one
  6. beaten back
  7. beaten Banaghan
  8. beaten biscuit
  9. beaten biscuits
  10. beaten down
  11. beaten feet

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