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SNAP BACK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does snap back mean?
• SNAP BACK (verb)
The verb SNAP BACK has 1 sense:
1. recover quickly
Familiarity information: SNAP BACK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recover quickly
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
After the surgery, the patient snapped back in a few days
Hypernyms (to "snap back" is one way to...):
convalesce; recover; recuperate (get over an illness or shock)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples
When boiling carries them up to the surface and farther into the sun’s lower atmosphere, magnetic field lines rapidly snap back into place to resolve the tension, expelling plasma and energy.
(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)
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