What are some alternative words for beat back?
Synonyms for beat back
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Princeton's WordNet
repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back(verb)
cause to move back by force or influence
"repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
Synonyms:
push back, tug, push, gross out, aim, force, rebuff, repel, drive, labour, revolt, take, repulse, motor, fight off, disgust, get, drive back, ride, labor, ram, snub, force back
Dictionary of English Synonymes
beat back
Synonyms:
repulse, repel, drive back
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #77 | get | |
| #246 | take | |
| #737 | drive | |
| #1022 | force | |
| #1999 | motor | |
| #2137 | labor | |
| #2751 | aim | |
| #2968 | ride | |
| #3213 | ram | |
| #3526 | labour | |
| #3587 | push | |
| #19292 | revolt | |
| #20230 | tug | |
| #28532 | disgust | |
| #42537 | repel | |
| #58771 | snub | |
| #85740 | repulse | |
| #112741 | rebuff |
How to use beat back in a sentence?
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke:
I want as many law-abiding citizens to arm themselves in Polk County as we can get so that I have the partner that I need to beat back this sort of violence.
Singapore's approach has been by far one of the very best, what they are really showing the rest of the world is that this is just a difficult virus to beat back and keep down.
As shown in their hour-long press conference together on Friday, the mayor and commissioner are closely working together to beat back crime.
Because we are in a race here to beat back this epidemic and a vaccine is very important, people might be willing to take a chance on just going quickly into phase two, so the 18 months would rely upon speeding things up.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson:
I’ve never heard from Chris Kennedy. I’ve never even met him. He’s never visited a police station or asked me or my team for any kind of briefing on what we are doing in Chicago to address the gang violence and ongoing infusion of illegal guns on our streets, i’m not a politician, but I do take issue with the hard work our men and women are doing to beat back this violence is used to score political points.
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