flash back to

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of FLASH BACK

to bring back to mind <the scent made me flash back to the days of my mother's home-cooked Sunday dinners>

Synonyms flash back (to), hark back (to), harken back (to), hearken back (to), mind [chiefly dialect], recall, recollect, reminisce (about), reproduce, think (of)

Related Words recapture, recur; educe, elicit, evoke, extract, raise, remind; relive; represent

Near Antonyms misremember; disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook; lose, miss; blank (out)

Antonyms disremember, forget, unlearn

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