Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to flash back
Participle: flashed back
Gerund: flashing back
Indicative
Present
| I | flash back |
| you | flash back |
| he;she;it | flashes back |
| we | flash back |
| you | flash back |
| they | flash back |
Perfect
| I | have flashed back |
| you | have flashed back |
| he;she;it | has flashed back |
| we | have flashed back |
| you | have flashed back |
| they | have flashed back |
Past
| I | flashed back |
| you | flashed back |
| he;she;it | flashed back |
| we | flashed back |
| you | flashed back |
| they | flashed back |
Pluperfect
| I | had flashed back |
| you | had flashed back |
| he;she;it | had flashed back |
| we | had flashed back |
| you | had flashed back |
| they | had flashed back |
Future
| I | will flash back |
| you | will flash back |
| he;she;it | will flash back |
| we | will flash back |
| you | will flash back |
| they | will flash back |
Future Perfect
| I | will have flashed back |
| you | will have flashed back |
| he;she;it | will have flashed back |
| we | will have flashed back |
| you | will have flashed back |
| they | will have flashed back |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | flash back |
| you | flash back |
| he;she;it | flash back |
| we | flash back |
| you | flash back |
| they | flash back |
Perfect
| I | have flashed back |
| you | have flashed back |
| he;she;it | have flashed back |
| we | have flashed back |
| you | have flashed back |
| they | have flashed back |
Imperfect
| I | flashed back |
| you | flashed back |
| he;she;it | flashed back |
| we | flashed back |
| you | flashed back |
| they | flashed back |
Pluperfect
| I | had flashed back |
| you | had flashed back |
| he;she;it | had flashed back |
| we | had flashed back |
| you | had flashed back |
| they | had flashed back |
Conditional
Present
| I | would flash back |
| you | would flash back |
| he;she;it | would flash back |
| we | would flash back |
| you | would flash back |
| they | would flash back |
Perfect
| I | would have flashed back |
| you | would have flashed back |
| he;she;it | would have flashed back |
| we | would have flashed back |
| you | would have flashed back |
| they | would have flashed back |
Imperative
| you | flash back |
| we | Let's flash back |
| you | flash back |
Verbs conjugated like 'flash'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'flash'
clash,
fash,
flask,
flesh,
flush,
lash,
plash,
slash,
abash,
ash,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to reflect light
- coruscate, gleam, glisten, glitter, luster, sheen, shimmer, shine, sparkle
- gleam
- glance, glimmer, coruscate, glare, glint, dazzle, glitter, shimmer
Additional Information
Etymology
1. 1387, from
flasken (c.1300) "to dash or splash" (as water), probably imitative. Sense of "sudden burst of light or flame" is 1548, as is the noun. Meaning "photographic lamp" is from 1913.
Flashy "showy, cheaply attractive" is first recorded 1690.
Flashlight, Amer.Eng. for "electric torch," is from 1919.
Flashback is 1916 as a plot device in novels or movies; 1960s as a type of hallucination.
Flasher "male genital exhibitionist" is 1960s, though
meat-flasher in this sense was attested in 1890s.
Flash in the pan (1809) is from old-style guns, where the powder might ignite in the pan but fail to spark the main charge.
2. In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”). See: Icelandic '
flasa'.
Verbs referencing "flash"
Cebuano plas, Spanish
flashear.
Sample Sentences
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[...] never were contending emotions more strongly painted upon the human face: at this moment of painful uncertainty, the mother drew her close to her side, and kissed her fondly, when at once the truth flashed upon the child, and all mistrust and anxiety disappeared from her face, as with an expression of exceeding joy she eagerly nestled to the bosom of her parent, and yielded herself to her fond [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] could,—I didn't think I should get over, but I didn't care ! I could but die, if I did n't. The Lord helped me; nobody knows how much the Lord can help ’ em, till they try, ” said the woman, with a flashing eye.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] moved, or smiled, he would start and fix his eyes on him, and then suddenly withdraw them, as the bright, dark eyes met his with such unconcerned coolness. At last, a sudden recollection seemed to flash upon him, for he stared at the stranger with such an air of blank amazement and alarm, that he walked up to him.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] in long white streaks, like veins along the landscape; the motley crowd of gables, roofs, and chimney tops in the old hilly town immediately at hand; the beautiful St. Lawrence sparkling and flashing in the sunlight; and the tiny ships below the rock from which you gaze, whose distant rigging looks like spiders ’ webs against the light, while casks and barrels on their decks dwindle into toys, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Rosa ! ” said Eva, “ hush ! Don't you say another word of that sort ! ” and the eye of the child flashed, and her cheek deepened its color.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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A glance like sheet-lightning suddenly flashed from those black eyes; and, facing about, with quivering lip and dilated nostrils, she drew herself up, and fixed a glance, blazing with rage and scorn, on the driver.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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A footstep entered the room, behind him, and the light of a lantern flashed on his eyes.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] Legree, who had that superstitious horror of insane persons which is common to coarse and uninstructed minds. When Legree brought Emmeline to the house, all the smouldering embers of womanly feeling flashed up in the worn heart of Cassy, and she took part with the girl; and a fierce quarrel ensued between her and Legree. Legree, in a fury, swore she should be put to field service, if she would not be [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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A cold soft hand fell on Legree's at this moment. He turned,—it was Cassy 's; but the cold soft touch recalled his dream of the night before, and, flashing through the chambers of his brain, came all the fearful images of the night-watches, with a portion of the horror that accompanied them.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Cassy had often revolved, for hours, all possible or probable schemes of escape, and dismissed them all, as hopeless and impracticable; but at this moment there flashed through her mind a plan, so simple and feasible in all its details, as to awaken an instant hope.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)