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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. aback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. aback: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. aback: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. aback: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Aback, aback: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. aback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Aback: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. aback: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  9. aback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. aback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. aback: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Aback, aback: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. aback: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  14. aback: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. Aback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. aback: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  17. Aback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. aback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. aback: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. Aback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. aback: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. Aback: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  23. aback: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. aback: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. aback: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. aback: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. aback: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aback: Idioms [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aback: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aback: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]


Quick definitions from WordNet (aback)

adverb:  by surprise ("Taken aback by the caustic remarks")
adverb:  having the wind against the forward side of the sails ("The ship came up into the wind with all yards aback")

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Phrases that include aback:   brace aback, taken sb aback, took sb aback

Words similar to aback:   sternward, more...


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