Backfill

What do we mean by backfill?

Material used to refill an excavated area. noun

To refill (an excavated area) with such material. transitive verb

To fill (a job or position that has been vacated). transitive verb

In engineering, to fill (a depression) with material taken from a cutting.

To refill a hole with the material dug out of it. verb

To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated. verb

To provide reserve support. verb

To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss. verb

The material that has been used to refill an excavation. noun

Reserve support personnel. noun

That which backfills; a replacement. noun

The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

Reserve support personnel.

That which backfills; a replacement.

Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.

Words that are spelled similarly to backfill:
backfill, backfall, backfire, backfield, backfit, bacill, backfist, backfills, backwell.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word backfill:
excavation, cement, deployed, soil, blade, horizontal, concrete, mixture, angle, collapse, fill, load, mine, sand, material, missions, laid, replacing, underground, personnel, supporting, wall, duty, walls, combat, cut, surface, steel, pressure, construction, floor, operation, earth, active, operations, sent, lines, foundation, allowed, aircraft, air, below, bridge, land, water.

Words that rhyme with backfill:
sackful, wrackful, back fill, quarterback phil, slack fill.

Adjectives that are often used to describe backfill:
stepped, granular, concrete, horizontal, bentonite, cohesive, loose, porous, initial, permeable, clean, select, dry, compacted, saturated, coarse, suitable, compact, mine, paste, hydraulic, special, deliberate, final, upper, submerged, sandy, structural, grave, carbonaceous, soft, homogeneous, dense, wall, opencast, lightweight, primary, adjacent, cemented, impervious, tamped, conventional, entire, mixed, pervious, typical, underground, additional, sufficient, clayey, crushed, cementitious, unbalanced, stratified, overlying, expansive, earth, plastic, aggregate, grout, thermal, stiff, inclined, based, sand, unreinforced, partial, controlled, gravel, grained, unsaturated, graded, consolidated, earthen, untamped, assumed, protective, uniform, impermeable, sloped, stable, improper, frozen, exterior.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective backfill:
system, soil, interface.

Consonant match to backfill:
bookful, backfall, back fall, back fill.

Words that sound like backfill:
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