- think back
- verbrecapture the past; indulge in memories (Freq. 2)-
he remembered how he used to pick flowers
• Syn: ↑remember• Derivationally related forms: ↑remembrance (for: ↑remember), ↑remembering (for: ↑remember)• Hyponyms: ↑reminisce, ↑review, ↑look back, ↑retrospect• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s
-Somebody ——s something
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ˌthink ˈback [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they think back he/she/it thinks back present participle thinking back past tense thought back past participle thought back] phrasal verbto think about something that happened in the pastI’ve been trying to think back to that last evening.
Thesaurus: to remembersynonymMain entry: think* * *
recall a past event or timeI keep thinking back to school
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think back [phrasal verb]: to think about something that happened in the past— often + toThinking back to my childhood, I remember summers at the beach.
Think back to that night. What were you doing?
• • •Main Entry: ↑think
Useful english dictionary. 2012.