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for backbite
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. t. [2d 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i.
To censure or revile the absent.
[1913 Webster]
They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
backbite
v 1: say mean things [syn: backbite, bitch]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
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 (1881-1906) :
BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find
you.
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