Definition of Flash Back in English :

Define Flash Back in English

Flash Back meaning in English

Meaning of Flash Back in English

Pronunciation of Flash Back in English

Flash Back pronunciation in English

Pronounce Flash Back in English

Flash Back

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Verb

1. cut back, flash back

return in time

Example Sentences:
'the film cut back to an earlier event in the story'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Flash Back

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n.
1.
a. A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.
b. The episode or scene depicted by means of this device.
2.
a. Psychiatry A recurring, intensely vivid mental image of a past traumatic experience: soldiers who had flashbacks of the war.
b. An unexpected recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug long after its original use.
c. A vivid memory that arises spontaneously or is provoked by an experience.
d. An experience that has characteristics of an earlier experience.

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