think back (to something)
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think back — verb recapture the past; indulge in memories (Freq. 2) he remembered how he used to pick flowers • Syn: ↑remember • Derivationally related forms: ↑remembrance (for: ↑remember), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
think back — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms think back : 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 to think about something that happened in the… … English dictionary
ˌthink ˈback — phrasal verb to think about something that happened in the past I ve been trying to think back to that last evening.[/ex] … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
think back — to remember something. When I think back on it, I realize I should have noticed that you were unhappy. Melissa and Jay both fell silent, thinking back to the dreadful time when Jack had almost died … New idioms dictionary
break the back of something — british phrase to finish the main part or the hardest part of a piece of work I think we’ve broken the back of the job now. Thesaurus: to finish somethingsynonym to kill a person or animalsynonym Main entry: break * * * b … Useful english dictionary
look back (on something) — ˌlook ˈback (on sth) derived to think about sth in your past Syn: reflect on • to look back on your childhood Main entry: ↑lookderived … Useful english dictionary
step back (from something) — ˌstep ˈback (from sth) derived to think about a situation calmly, as if you are not involved in it yourself • We are learning to step back from ourselves and identify our strengths and weaknesses. Main entry: ↑stepderived … Useful english dictionary
back — I [[t]bæ̱k[/t]] ADVERB USES ♦ (In addition to the uses shown below, back is also used in phrasal verbs such as date back and fall back on .) 1) ADV: ADV after v, oft ADV prep If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in… … English dictionary
think — 1 Think, conceive, imagine, fancy, realize, envisage, envision are comparable when they mean to form an idea or notion of something in the mind. Think, the most general and least explicit word of this group, may imply nothing more than the… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
cast your mind back (to something) — cast your mind back (to sth) idiom to make yourself think about sth that happened in the past • I want you to cast your minds back to the first time you met. Main entry: ↑castidiom … Useful english dictionary
