BACKBITES

Verb

backbites

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backbite

Noun

backbites

plural of backbite

Source: Wiktionary


BACKBITE

Back"bite`, v. i. Etym: [2nd back, n., + bite]

Definition: To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

Back"bite`, v. i.

Definition: To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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