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THINK BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does think back mean? 

THINK BACK (verb)
  The verb THINK BACK has 1 sense:

1. recapture the past; indulge in memoriesplay

  Familiarity information: THINK BACK used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THINK BACK (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Recapture the past; indulge in memories

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

remember; think back

Context example:

he remembered how he used to pick flowers

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "think back"):

reminisce (recall the past)

look back; retrospect; review (look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


Think back to before Saturn came into Capricorn to teach you on December 19, 2017.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Think back 19 years when you had a full moon lunar eclipse on January 9, 2001, to see if you can recall anything that happened to you then.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You also have learned to negotiate well for yourself—just think back to 2016 and 2017 and see how far you’ve come before Saturn came knocking.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It seems to go up and down dramatically week by week, and if you think back through 2019, you likely will see that you’ve experienced a variety of emotions about your partner.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You may not realize how much you have grown—think back to where you were in 2016 and early-to-mid 2017, before this trend began.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You will see that even more money will be rolling in, and you will think back to times when you seem to have gone through a drought and never knew when the rains would come.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The past two years certainly have not been easy, but you learned a great deal—for proof, think back to where you were professionally in 2015, 2016, and early 2017, and see how far you have come.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You are leaner, stronger, and more capable than you were before he came by—think back to 2015, 2016, and most of 2017—to the time before Saturn entered Capricorn—and see how far you’ve come.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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