verb
return in time
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the film cut back to an earlier event in the story
• Syn: ↑cut back
• Derivationally related forms: ↑flashback
• Hypernyms: ↑return
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Something is ——ing PP
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intransitive verb : to focus one's mind on or vividly remember a past time or incident
flashes back on their relationship — Miriam Berkley
flashed back to 1963
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(of a person's thoughts or mind) briefly and suddenly recall a previous time or incident
her thoughts immediately flashed back to last night
Useful english dictionary. 2012.