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[ verb ] look towards one's back
Synonyms Examples "don't look back while you walk" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown , beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine_shop , and along the Delaware and Hudson_Canal , and northward to Brooklyn , below Point_Peter , he could see the church spire wherever he looked_back . (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)She looked_back toward the schoolroom . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)The policeman walked on , but he looked_back once . Related terms |
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[ verb ] look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events, etc.); remember
Synonyms Examples "she reviewed her achievements with pride" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)From maturity one looks_back at the succession of years , counts them and makes them many , yet cannot feel length in the number , however large . Related terms |
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