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HARK BACK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go back to something earlier

Example:

This harks back to a previous remark of his

Synonyms:

come back; hark back; recall; return

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "hark back" is one way to...):

denote; refer (have as a meaning)

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

go back; recur (return in thought or speech to something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

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