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Backing

Definition of backing:

Curious, isn't it, that we should make friends while I was backing the President and you the rebels! "The Coast of Adventure", Harold Bindloss.
Probably he had already this plan in his head when he sent his treatise On the Beautiful to Hierius, orator to the City of Rome; he thought that by this politeness he might depend, later, on the backing of the well- known rhetorician. "Saint Augustin", Louis Bertrand.
" Very well, Captain, just to humor you," said the landlord, backing himself out with his head in his chest. "Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon 1893", Hall Caine.
Without the Society's backing the women could never have had their case put before the public as it was. "The Trade Union Woman", Alice Henry.

Violate

To treat roughly or severely; to ill- use; to encroach or trespass upon; as, to violate an other's rights or property; to profane or treat irreverently; as, to violate a tomb or grave; to transgress, as the law; to disregard, as a treaty; to break, as a promise; to outrage or dishonor. ...