Thesaurus / look back
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synonyms for look back
- lament
- grieve
- repent
- bemoan
- apologize
- deplore
- moan
- bewail
- deprecate
- repine
- disapprove
- rue
- mourn
- weep
- miss
- be disturbed
- be sorry for
- cry over
- cry over spilled milk
- feel remorse
- feel sorry
- feel uneasy
- have compunctions
- have qualms
- kick oneself
- weep over
- commemorate
- get
- recall
- recognize
- remind
- learn
- revoke
- retrospect
- memorize
- extract
- treasure
- mind
- revive
- recollect
- educe
- reminisce
- elicit
- memorialize
- retain
- bethink
- enshrine
- cite
- bear in mind
- call to mind
- conjure up
- go back
- nail down
- think back
- relive
- know by heart
- brood over
- call up
- dig into the past
- dwell upon
- fix in the mind
- flash on
- have memories
- hold dear
- keep forever
- refresh memory
- ring a bell
- strike a note
- summon up
- remind
- remember
- recall
- review
- mind
- revive
- recollect
- retain
- bethink
- cite
- retrospect
- think back
- call up
- hark back
- live in the past
- muse over
- bear in mind
- conjure up
- recall
- recollect
- remember
- dig into the past
- have memories
- refresh memory
- summon up
- to remember
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How to use look back in a sentence
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEI waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANSquinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERI was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINAlessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWORDS RELATED TO LOOK BACK
- arouse
- awaken
- bethink
- bring to mind
- call to mind
- call up
- cite
- come to one
- educe
- elicit
- evoke
- extract
- flash
- flash on
- look back
- mind
- nail it down
- recollect
- reestablish
- reinstate
- reintroduce
- remind
- reminisce
- renew
- retain
- retrospect
- revive
- ring a bell
- rouse
- stir
- strike a note
- summon
- think back
- think of
- waken
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