Dictionary Entry
backbite
backbite is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 21 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
- 2intransitive verb
To censure or revile the absent.
- 3verb
say mean things
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