1. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails
   "the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback"
    
2. By surprise
   "taken aback by the caustic remarks"

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• self-knowledge
• self-limited
• self-loader
• self-loading
• self-locking
• self-love
• self-loving
• self-luminous
• self-made
• self-mortification
• self-moving
• self-opinionated
• self-organisation
• self-organization
• self-perpetuating
• self-pity
• self-pitying
• self-pollinated
• self-pollinating
• self-pollination
• self-portrait
• self-possessed
• self-possession
• self-praise
• self-preservation