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Definition: Hark Back |
Hark BackVerb1. Go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hark Back (To). To return to the subject. "Revenons à nos moutons " (q.v.). A call to the dogs in fox-hunting, when they have overrun the scent, "Hark [dogs] come back"; so "Hark forards!" "Hark away!" etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Hark BackSynonyms: come back (v), recall (v), return (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regression | Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hark Back |
| English words defined with "hark back": To hark back. (references) |
Expressions using "hark back": hark back to ♦ hark back to smth. ♦ To hark back. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "hark back"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kthehem sërish, ka fillimin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رجع الى الموضوع السابق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | връщам се на някакъв въпрос, викам кучета да се върнат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vracet se (recur, regress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | revenir . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zurückkommen (bounce back, come back, get back, move back, refer, return, revert, wander back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszatérés (come back, comeback, come-back, getting back, recovery, recurrence, regress, regression, return, reversion), újra elõvesz valamit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ritrovare la traccia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arkhay ackbay recordar (recall, recollect, remember, remind, repeat, retrace), lembrar (admonish, call up, caution, keep in mind, know, occur, put in mind, recall, recollect, remember, remind, smack, suggest, to remember, warn). (various references) reveni asupra urmei. (various references) вернуться назад. (various references) vraćati se po tragu, evocirati (evoke). (various references) volver (abduce, call back, come back, cut back, get back, get in, go back, put back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning). (various references) gå tillbaka (ascend, head back, recad, recede, regress, retrogress). (various references) sadede gelmek (come to the point, get down to brass tacks), konuya dönmek, geri dönmek (put back, regain, return, return to, turn back). (various references) назад (aback, astern, back, backward, backwards, counter, keep back, rearward, rearwards). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-h-k-k-r" | |
-2 letters: chakra, charka. | |
-3 letters: aback, brach, chark, kabar. | |
-4 letters: arak, arch, bach, back, bark, carb, cark, char, crab, haar, hack, hark, kaka, kbar, rack. | |
-5 letters: aah, aba, aha, arb, arc, ark, baa, bah, bar, bra, cab, car, kab, rah. | |
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