Backs Synonyms and Antonyms

To assure the certainty or validity of.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. warrants
  2. verifies
  3. validates
  4. testifies
  5. substantiates
  6. justifies
  7. evidences
  8. corroborates
  9. confirms
Give support or one's approval to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. supports
  2. substantiates
  3. upholds
  4. endorses
  5. corroborates
Antonyms:
  1. dissuades
  2. discourages
Cause to travel backward
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. retreats
  2. withdraws
  3. retrogresses
  4. retrogrades
  5. reverses
  6. backtracks
Antonyms:
  1. advances
  2. veers
  3. fronts
To supply capital to or for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bankrolls
  2. subsidizes
  3. stakes
  4. funds
  5. capitalizes
The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rears
  2. tails
  3. poops
  4. end
  5. posteriors
Antonyms:
  1. fronts
One who plays behind the line, especially in football
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. quarterbacks
The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rumps
  2. dorsa
  3. terga
  4. spines
  5. rachides
  6. covers
  7. supports
  8. backbones
  9. seats
  10. ridges
  11. occiputs
  12. reversions
  13. regressions
  14. recessions
  15. napes
  16. fundaments
  17. posteriors
  18. bindings
Antonyms:
  1. stomachs
  2. chests
The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dorsa
To be in favor of; endorse or advocate:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. supports

Words Related to Backs

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Backs Sentence Examples

  • The two ambones in the cathedral of Salerno, which are different in design, are magnificent in effect and are enriched with sculpture as well as with mosaic. In the gospel ambo in the cathedral of Ravello (1272), and also in that of the convent of the Trinita della Cava near Salerno, the spiral columns inlaid with mosaic stand on the backs of lions.

  • The seats, holding two persons, are placed transversely on each side of the central passage, and have reversible backs, so that passengers can always sit facing the direction in which the train is travelling.

  • Coal was brought down from the hills on the backs of mules, and iron carried in two-ton wagons.

  • There are benches with backs not only in the bottom row, but also above and below the diazoma.

  • Of foxes certainly distinct specifically from the typical representative of the group, one of the best known is the Indian Vulpes bengalensis, a species much inferior in point of size to its European relative, and lacking the strong odour of the latter, from which it is also distinguished by the black tip to the tail and the pale-coloured backs of the ears.

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