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cast back

cast back verb: to think about or imagine to a time in the past; to search or refer to one's memories of the past.

Verb

cast back (third-person singular simple present casts back, present participle casting back, simple past and past participle cast back)

  1. (intransitive) To think about or imagine to a time in the past; to search or refer to one's memories of the past.

Forms of cast back

third-person singular presentcasts back
present participlecasting back
past participlecast back
pastcast back

Questions about cast back

What does cast back mean?
Cast back means to think about or imagine to a time in the past; to search or refer to one's memories of the past.
What part of speech is cast back?
Cast back is a verb.
What is the past tense of cast back?
The past tense of cast back is cast back.

Words near cast back in the dictionary

  1. cast anchor
  2. cast around
  3. cast aside
  4. cast aspersions
  5. cast away
  6. cast back
  7. cast caution to the wind
  8. cast dispersions
  9. cast down
  10. cast fossil
  11. cast fossils

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