TOP

Definition of flash back phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

flash back

phrasal verb
jump to other results
flash back (to something)
  1. if your mind flashes back to something, you remember something that happened in the past
    • Her thoughts flashed back to their wedding day.
    related noun flashback (2)
  2. if a film flashes back to something, it shows things that happened at an earlier time, for example at an earlier part of somebody’s life related noun flashback (1)
  3. to reply very quickly and/or angrily
See flash back in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

Nearby words

pity
noun
 
 
From the Word list
Oxford 5000
B2
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day