Assert
Back
Back verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
-
After Meg gets back from prison she has apparently learnt all about prison rape and she calmly steps into the shower with her naked father, and rapes him with a loofah to assert her dominance.
Source: Prison Rape -
Through a combination of strategic nuking and bloody siege and attrition warfare, the loyalists slowly took back their planet inch by inch over the course of five hundred years until they were able to re-assert Imperial authority.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Being from the 20th century, Claire feels this way and is quick to let Jamie know it when he tries to assert his "husbandly privileges"; she loses it and tells him that if he forced her he'd be no better than Randall, causing Jamie to back off in anger.
Source: Literature / Outlander
Cite this Source
Back and Assert. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/assert/back
Assert & Back. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/assert/back>.
Back or Assert. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/assert/back.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "assert" and "back" have occurred on timeline