backdrop

Reader's Digest １1月号の記事 "Call the Vatican" から引用します。
He was born into a troubled country, which had been illegally annexed by Ethiopia, its Marxist neighbour. Zerai's early life was backdropped by the brutal 30-year war for independence, which the Eritreans eventually won in 1991.
こんな風に "backdrop" を動詞として使えるのですね。　辞書で用例をチェックしましたが、次の辞書の例の他は皆名詞としての項目しかありませんでした。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Provide a background or setting for: an ornate fountain, and at its center, backdropped with golden spray, a statue of a young girl