beat back

phrasal verb

beat back; beaten back or beat back; beating back; beats back

: to force (someone) to go back or to retreat by fighting

Our troops were beaten back by enemy forces.

Police used batons to beat the protesters back.

Examples of beat back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are many new information sources with which frontline producers already are beating back climate change or adapting to it at the very least. —Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025

The sight of Peter’s scarred, beaten back continues to inspire and inform. —Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025

And of course, as has been the case since the beginning of MLPerf, Nvidia ran all the models and beat back all the competition, the few that had the gumption to compete. —Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

Hernandez and Baffert teamed for two more wins Sunday as the rider beat back a challenge by Antonio Fresu in the jockey race. —Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for beat back

• aback
• anzac
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback