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(1):

(v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.

(2):

(v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Backbite'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/backbite.html. 1828.
 
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