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RECOLLECT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

Example:

call up memories

Synonyms:

call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recollect"):

know (perceive as familiar)

recognise; recognize (perceive to be the same)

brush up; refresh; review (refresh one's memory)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Derivation:

recollection (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort))

recollective (good at remembering)

Credits

 Context examples: 

How well I recollect the kind of day it was!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Martin recollected his blank-verse tragedy, and sent it instead.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My hand was already on the lock of the door before I recollected myself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had, as you will recollect, lost heavily, and my only consolation was that my own brother had won.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will recollect that Mortimer Tregennis, in describing the episode of his last visit to his brother’s house, remarked that the doctor on entering the room fell into a chair?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As to his appearance, I have, as I recollect, described it in that portion of my narrative which I have left behind me in London.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the contrary, I can never recollect having seen him in such exuberant spirits.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Utterson’s nerves, at this unlooked-for termination, gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his balance; but he recollected his courage and followed the butler into the laboratory building through the surgical theatre, with its lumber of crates and bottles, to the foot of the stair.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)