| VERB | motion | flash back, cut back | return in time |
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| Meaning | Return in time. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Synonym | cut back | |
| Broader | return | Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before |
| See also | flash | run or move very quickly or hastily |
| Nouns | flashback | a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene / scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story |
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