beat back
English
Verb
beat back (third-person singular simple present beats back, present participle beating back, simple past beat back, past participle beaten back or beat back)
- to fight against and cause to recede
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 13, in A Promised Land, Crown:
- I couldn't expect people to understand how much their voices actually meant to me—how they had sustained my spirits and beat back whispering doubts on those late, solitary nights.
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Anagrams
- back beat, backbeat