look back meaning

• Verb: look back  lûk bak
  1. Look towards one's back
     "don't look back while you walk"
     - look backward 
  2. Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
     - review, retrospect

  Derived forms: looks back, looking back, looked back

  See also: look

  Type of: look, remember, think back

• 
  [American slang]
  1. Lit. to gaze back and try to get a view of someone or something.
    She looked back at the city and whispered a good-bye to everything she had ever cared for.
    I went away and never looked back.
  2. Fig. to think about someone or something in the past.
    When I look back on Frank, I do remember his strange manner, come to think of it.
    When I look back, I am amazed at all I have accomplished.

• look:    Verb: look &n ...
• look at:    Verb: look atTake ...
• look for:    Verb: look for&nbs ...

Examples

1. as i look back, scenes of the past leap before my eyes.
2. i love to look back on my childhood.
3. as long as i live i shall look back upon it with regret.
4. i can leave with a cheerful shrug and never look back.
5. i look back on this as something we really did right.