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back
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of BACK
1
to promote the interests or cause of <she enthusiastically backed the plan to renovate and upgrade the school's facilities>
Synonyms advocate, back, champion, endorse (also indorse), patronize, plump (for), plunk (for) or plonk (for)
2
to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end <a number of influential people have already agreed to back the candidate>
Related Words advance, ease, facilitate, forward, foster, further, launch; champion, endorse (also indorse), patronize, promote, sponsor; attend, care (for), comfort, minister (to), succor; sustain; bolster, boost, buttress, reinforce (also reenforce); advise, counsel, guide, mentor, nurture; bail out, deliver, rescue, save; embolden, encourage, hearten; benefit, favor, oblige, profit, serve
Near Antonyms balk, bar, block, constrain, hamper, handicap, hold back, impede, inhibit, obstruct, restrain, strangle; baffle, foil, frustrate, inconvenience, interfere, oppose, sabotage, thwart; desert, disappoint, fail, let down; discourage, dishearten; repress, retard, stifle, straiten, stunt; damage, harm, hurt, injure
Antonyms hinder
3
to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea) <the author needs to back her thesis with more facts>
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