look back

look back
verb
1. look towards one's back (Freq. 11)
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don't look back while you walk

• Syn: ↑look backward
• Hypernyms: ↑look
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

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Somebody ——s PP

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They look back up the hill

2. look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember (Freq. 4)
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she reviewed her achievements with pride

• Syn: ↑review, ↑retrospect
• Derivationally related forms: ↑retrospective (for: ↑retrospect), ↑retrospection (for: ↑retrospect), ↑retrospect (for: ↑retrospect), ↑review (for: ↑review)
• Hypernyms: ↑remember, ↑think back
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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1) think of the past

don't waste time looking back on things that have caused you distress

2) [with negative] suffer a setback or interrupted progress

she launched her own company in 1981 and has never looked back

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look back [phrasal verb]
: to think about something in the past

Looking back to/at last season, I can see why they didn't win the pennant.

I look back at/on that time with a lot of pride. [=I feel proud when I think about that time]

◇ If you make an important change in your life and never look back, you never return to the way you had been before, and your life is very different from that time onward.

After college, she moved to New York, got a job on Wall Street, and never looked back.

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Main Entry: ↑look

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