to bring back

Examples

• All

• Oh my God this brings back so many memories for me.

  Zoe Sugg

• Hearing Ahmed's voice brings back all kinds of memories.

• Oh my God, this brings me back to high school.

• And it's like it just brings you back when you were that age, right?

  Andrew Huberman

• Oh my God, it just brings me back to like my junior high days.

• I was afraid seeing him again might bring it all back.

  Laughing Sinners (1931)

• Oh man this too just brings back so many memories.

• This is actually something that brings me back to my childhood.

  W Magazine

• Oh my God, this brings back so many memories.

• They want to bring back human error because that's the way you get new ideas, by making mistakes.

  The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Synonyms

R

to recall

vsto bring back

∞ 2.4

Remember something from the past

focuses on causing someone to remember rather than neutral mental retrieval

R

to remind someone of

vsto bring back

∞ 2.6

To make someone think of a person, place, or time from the past

is about causing memory directly rather than hinting via associations

T

to take back

vsto bring back

• Informal

148 3.1

Make someone remember a time from the past

aims at causing general recall rather than focusing on a past time frame

R

to refresh

vsto bring back

50 2.8

Help someone or yourself remember something forgotten

is used for causing recall more broadly rather than brief refreshment

R

to retrieve

vsto bring back

44 4.1

To bring a memory or fact back into your mind

aims at prompting someone to remember rather than the technical act of recovery

R

to refresh memory

vsto bring back

24 3.4

To help someone remember things they learned before

is more about causing recall in general, not only restoring learned details

B

to bring back memories

vsto bring back

21 3.5

To make someone remember the past, for example a song or photo

causes memory without necessarily adding emotional or nostalgic feeling

C

to call up

vsto bring back

11 3.2

To make a memory or image appear in your mind

is about prompting recall for someone rather than simply surfacing information

J

to jog one's memory

vsto bring back

5 4.5

Help someone remember something they forgot

covers general causing of memory rather than specifically triggering forgotten facts

C

to call back

vsto bring back

4 2.3

Remember something from the past

focuses on causing someone to remember rather than the act of recollection itself

R

to remind of

vsto bring back

2.6

Make someone think of another person or thing that is similar

prompts memory directly rather than relying on likeness or association

P

to put in mind of

vsto bring back

• UK

3.9

To make someone remember a person or thing

is focused on direct prompting to remember rather than indirect association

R

to relight

vsto bring back

5.1

Make a feeling, interest, or memory come back

focuses on causing someone to remember without necessarily restoring strength or feeling

Antonyms

F

to forget

∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

How Clearly

to remind

∞ 1.0

to bring back

143 3.0

to evoke

71 4.8

to reawaken

10 5.1

to hint

136 2.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology