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flash back

flash back


intransitive verb 
Definition:
 
1. recall painful memory: to recall an intensely vivid memory of a traumatic experience

2. return to earlier event: to go back to a scene at an earlier point in a narrative, out of chronological order, to fill in information or explain something in the present

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