backed

Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.

Adjective

  1. Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
    • He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
  2. Having specified type of back.
    • a high-backed chair
    • sway-backed
    • red-backed shrike
  3. Having specified type of backing.
    • asset-backed securities
    • Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long...

Origin

From back (noun) + -ed.

Hyponyms

American-backed asset-backed barebacked bare-backed battery-backed broken-backed camelbacked crookbacked ESA-backed flat-backed millipede green-backed hardbacked high-backed highbacked hogbacked humpbacked hump-backed hunchbacked lute-backed mossbacked paperbacked softbacked

Derived

asset-backed commercial paper asset-backed security backed blade black-backed antshrike black-backed grosbeak black-backed gull black-backed jackal black-backed water tyrant chestnut-backed antshrike chestnut-backed chickadee community-backed factory-backed great black-backed gull greater black-backed gull green-backed firecrown green-backed flycatcher green-backed gerygone green-backed tit grey-backed fiscal grey red-backed vole hog-backed lesser black-backed gull mortgage-backed mortgage-backed security

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of back

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.