Wiktionary
1 Moved to the background 2 (context computing English) (''of a task'') Made non-interactive v
(en-past of: background)
Usage examples of "backgrounded".
He'd been backgrounded, conversing with one of Richard's subroutines while Richard's core identity handled half a dozen more important things.
He backgrounded the process and divided his focus between the laboratory—where Gabe was conducting a postmortem on yet another batch of nanite victims of sudden-biomechanical-autism-syndrome—and the captain's office.
Bare backs and white ties made a milling chiaroscuro backgrounded by hushed murmurs and the plastic chink of chips.
It backgrounded weirdly illuminated figures of my companions, made them into pictures surreal as effusions of Dali -- fearsome as improbable Laughter issuing from the depths of mausoleums.
But when we backgrounded you and asked around quietly, we heard you went to Mexico for the month.
He began walking and the map stayed with him, a little over 30 centimetres from his nose until he backgrounded it.