flashback

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Synonyms: flash back, flareback, flashbacks, splashback, lash back, flashbang, fastback, cashback, fishback, flat back, flatback

Antonyms: flash back, flareback, flashbacks, splashback, lash back, flashbang, fastback, cashback, fishback, flat back, flatback

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|authorship}} A [[dramatic]] [[device]] in which an [[earlier]] [[event]] is [[insert]]ed into the normal [[chronological]] flow of a [[narrative]].
2. {{lb|en|psychology}} A [[vivid]] [[mental]] [[image]] of a past [[trauma]] or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that [[recur]]s.
3. Something that evokes old memories; a [[throwback]].
4. A similar recurrence of the [[effect]]s of a [[hallucinogenic]] [[drug]].
5. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
6. {{lb|en|databases}} A [[query]] that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[undergo]] a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

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