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HARK BACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Go back to something earlier
Example:
This harks back to a previous remark of his
Synonyms:
come back; hark back; recall; return
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "hark back" is one way to...):
denote; refer (have as a meaning)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hark back"):
go back; recur (return in thought or speech to something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
