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backread en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ˈbækˌɹiːd/
• /ˈbækˌɹɛd/

Etymology

From back + read.

Meanings

1. (Internet, especially) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
2. (Internet, broadly, especially) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for. ▸ To read conversations one was not present for.
3. To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge.
   • What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological backreading of history. 2001, Andrew Rippin, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices:
   • Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before. 1980, Diana Hume George, Blake and Freud:

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