Meaning of BACKBITE
| Pronunciation: | | 'bak`bIt
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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[v] say mean things |
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BACKBITE is a 8 letter word that starts with B. |
| | Synonyms: | | bitch |
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| | See Also: | | complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Back"bite`\, v. i. [2nd back, n., + bite]
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or
spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of
(one absent). --Spenser.
\Back"bite`\, v. i.
To censure or revile the absent.
They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent. |
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