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third-person singular simple present beats back, present participle beating back, simple past beat back, past participle beaten back or beat back
(transitive) To fight against and cause to recede. quotations examples
I couldn't expect people to understand how much their voices actually meant to me—how they had sustained my spirits and beat back whispering doubts on those late, solitary nights.
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 13, in A Promised Land, Crown
But the Republican blockade in the Senate left Democrats without a clear path forward, and without a means to beat back the restrictive voting laws racing through Republican-led states.
2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times