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List of synonyms from "backdrop" to synonyms from "backing and fill"
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- Backdrop
- Backed
- Backed and fill
- Backed at you
- Backed fill
- Backed off
- Backed out
- Backed to the salt mines
- Backed up
- Backed wrong horse
- Backed you
- Backer
- Backfire
- Backflow
- Background
- Background material
- Background music
- Backgrounds
- Backhanded
- Backhanded compliment
- Backhandeds
- Backhoe
- Backing
- Backing and fill
Definition of the day : « backfire »
- verb have an opposite effect
- He got three chugs and a backfire into the carburetor, and after that silence.
- Extract from : « Cabin Fever » by B. M. Bower
- After—as I said before, on the first shot, it was too sharp to be a backfire of an automobile.
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
- It had caught fire from the backfire of the engine and the exhaust, but was not yet in a decided blaze.
- Extract from : « Lest We Forget » by John Gilbert Thompson
- They must backfire for a third of a mile before they dared hope the place was safe.
- Extract from : « Chicken Little Jane on the Big John » by Lily Munsell Ritchie
- If you have to burn off the rubbish, do so in small spots at a time, then backfire toward the center.
- Extract from : « The Pony Rider Boys in New England » by Frank Gee Patchin
- Not having a carburetor the engine could not backfire, further reducing the fire hazard.
- Extract from : « The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 » by Robert B. Meyer
- Mr. Dilly was in the Woodruff District to build a backfire against this conflagration of the county superintendent.
- Extract from : « The Brown Mouse » by Herbert Quick
- The backfire had burned for many yards westward, to meet the threatening wave of flame flying on the wings of the wind.
- Extract from : « Frances of the Ranges » by Amy Bell Marlowe
- Soon he came to a place where someone else had obviously worked on a backfire.
- Extract from : « Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol » by Henry Harley Arnold
- The scene was getting weird and a return of the storm, a sort of backfire, made the whole thing seem uncanny.
- Extract from : « Jane Allen: Center » by Edith Bancroft