backread /ˈbækˌɹiːd/ verb3 •(Internet) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for. •(Internet) To read conversations one was not present for. •To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge.Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before. — 1980 formsbackreading · backreads