Usually means: Speak negatively about someone absent.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word backbite:

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  1. backbite: Merriam-Webster
  2. backbite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backbite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backbite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backbite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backbite, backbite: Wordnik
  7. backbite: Wiktionary
  8. backbite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. backbite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. backbite: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Backbite, backbite: Dictionary.com
  12. Backbite (Transformers), Backbite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Backbite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. backbite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. backbite: Rhymezone
  16. Backbite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. backbite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Backbite: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. backbite: FreeDictionary.org
  20. backbite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. backbite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. backbite: Merriam-Webster

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backbite: Easton Bible

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backbite)

verb:  To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
verb:  (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
verb:  To speak badly of an absent individual.
noun:  One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

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