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Noun flash back has 2 senses
- flashback - a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
--1 is a kind of transition
Antonyms: flash-forward
- flashback - an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
--2 is a kind of recurrence, return
Verb flash back has 1 sense
- cut back, flash back - return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"
--1 is one way to return, go back, get back, come back
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
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