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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : hahrk |
| Phonetic Transcription : hɑrk |
Definition of hark back
Origin :- late 12c., from Old English *heorcian, perhaps an intensive form from base of hieran (see hear). Cf. talk/tale. Cognate with Old Frisian harkia "listen," Middle Dutch horken, Old High German horechon, German horchen. To hark back (1829) originally referred to hounds returning along a track when the scent has been lost, till they find it again. Related: Harked; harking.
- As in reminisce : verb go over in one's memory
- As in revert : verb return to an earlier, less-developed condition
- As in reoccur : verb return
- You hark back to the different construction we put on her appearance that evening?
- Extract from : « Embarrassments » by Henry James
- But I am anticipating, and must hark back to the anchor with the flukes of pearl.
- Extract from : « Jewel Mysteries » by Max Pemberton
- Hark back to your well-thumbed Lavengro and you will find, if you do not remember, his reasons.
- Extract from : « Tommy Wideawake » by H. H. Bashford
- And if we find ourselves on the wrong tack why then we'll hark back.
- Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade
- The convict had lost the thread of his examination, and had to hark back.
- Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
- “Yes, you hark back,” the young man laughed, thankful for a formula.
- Extract from : « Lady Barbarina » by Henry James
- We must hark back on our own tracks first thing in the morning.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Man » by E. W. Hornung
- As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive.
- Extract from : « The Kempton-Wace Letters » by Jack London
- I think, if I were you, I should hark back upon some place in Ireland.
- Extract from : « Phineas Finn » by Anthony Trollope
- However, to hark back to what I was about to say, he outlived her by fifteen years or so.
- Extract from : « A Duet » by Arthur Conan Doyle
Synonyms for hark back
- about-face
- backslide
- bethink
- call up
- change
- cite
- come back
- decline
- degenerate
- deteriorate
- fall off the wagon
- flip-flop
- go back
- hark back
- inverse
- invert
- lapse
- live in the past
- look back
- mind
- muse over
- react
- recall
- recollect
- recrudesce
- recur
- regress
- relapse
- remember
- remind
- resume
- retain
- retrograde
- retrogress
- retrospect
- return
- revert
- review
- revive
- take up where left off
- think back
- throw back
- transpose
- turn
- turn back
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