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Definition of Think back
1. Verb. Recapture the past; indulge in memories. "He remembered how he used to pick flowers"
Specialized synonyms: Reminisce, Look Back, Retrospect, Review
Derivative terms: Remembering, Remembrance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Think Back
Literary usage of Think back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through the School: The Experiences of a Mill Boy in Securing an Education by Frederic Kenyon Brown (1912)
""Can't you think back again — to him?" I demanded, making an effort to be of some
assistance and comfort to the disconsolate man. Burner stood on his feet, ..."
2. Through the School: The Experiences of a Mill Boy in Securing an Education by Frederic Kenyon Brown (1912)
"When I got back here, last week, I was sitting in this chair, when all of a sudden
I did think back of God; and conceived all reality as being so immaterial ..."
3. The Boy's Yearly Book by John Tillotson (1867)
"If you want me to answer this question, you must go back with me, or, rather,
think back with me, over many thousands of years, and, looking into this same ..."
4. American Inventions and Inventors by William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry (1910)
"Can you think back still further to a time when the house in which you live had
not been built? when the street in front of your house had not been made? ..."
5. American Inventions and Inventors by William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry (1910)
"If you have, then you can think back to a time when some house that you can see
... Can you think back still further to a time when the house. in which you ..."
6. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"... accursed sea One moment only, Forget one moment, Love, thy fierce content;
Back let thy soul be bent— think back, dear Love, О Love, think back to me ! ..."
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