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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i. [2nd back n., + bite] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i. To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: backbite v : say mean things [syn: {bitch}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Backbite In Ps 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you
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