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2 PREP If you are walking or travelling behind someone or something, you are following them. □  Keith wandered along behind him. □  Myra and Sam and the children were driving behind them. ● ADV [ADV after v] Behind is also an adverb. □  The troopers followed behind, every muscle tensed for the sudden gunfire.

3 PREP If someone is behind a desk, counter, or bar, they are on the other side of it from where you are. □  The colonel was sitting behind a cheap wooden desk. □  He could just about see the little man behind the counter.

4 PREP When you shut a door or gate behind you, you shut it after you have gone through it. □  I walked out and closed the door behind me. □  He slammed the gate shut behind him.

5 PREP The people, reason, or events behind a situation are the causes of it or are responsible for it. □  It is still not clear who was behind the killing. □  He is embarrassed about the motives behind his decision.

6 PREP If something or someone is behind you, they support you and help you. □  He had the state's judicial power behind him.

7 PREP If you refer to what is behind someone's outside appearance, you are referring to a characteristic which you cannot immediately see or is not obvious, but which you think is there. □  What lay behind his anger was really the hurt he felt at Grace's refusal.

8 PREP If you are behind someone, you are less successful than them, or have done less or advanced less. □  Food production has already fallen behind the population growth. ● ADV [be ADV , ADV after v] Behind is also an adverb. □  The rapid development of technology means that she is now far behind, and will need retraining.

9 PREP If an experience is behind you, it happened in your past and will not happen again, or no longer affects you. □  Maureen put the nightmare behind her.

10 PREP If you have a particular achievement behind you, you have managed to reach this achievement, and other people consider it to be important or valuable. □  He has 20 years of loyal service to Barclays Bank behind him.

11 PREP If something is behind schedule, it is not as far advanced as people had planned. If someone is behind schedule, they are not progressing as quickly at something as they had planned. □  The work is 22 weeks behind schedule.

12 ADV [ADV after v] If you stay behind , you remain in a place after other people have gone. □  About 1,200 personnel will remain behind to take care of the air base.

13 ADV [ADV after v] If you leave something or someone behind , you do not take them with you when you go. □  The rebels fled into the mountains, leaving behind their weapons and supplies.

14to do something behind someone's back → see back ➋

15behind bars → see bar

16behind the scenes → see scene

17behind the times → see time

➋ be|hind /b I ha I nd/ (behinds ) N‑COUNT Your behind is the part of your body that you sit on. USAGE behind

Don’t use ‘of ’ after behind . Don’t say, for example, ‘ They parked the motorcycle behind of some bushes ’. Say ‘They parked the motorcycle behind some bushes’.

behi nd-the-sce nes → see scene

be|hold /b I hoʊ ld/ (beholds , beholding , beheld )

1 VERB If you behold someone or something, you see them. [LITERARY ] □ [V n] She looked into his eyes and beheld madness.

2lo and behold → see lo

be|hold|en /b I hoʊ ld ^ə n/ ADJ If you are beholden to someone, you are in debt to them in some way or you feel that you have a duty to them because they have helped you. □  We feel really beholden to them for what they've done.

be|hold|er /b I hoʊ ldə ^r / (beholders )