recollect
verb (1)
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re-collect
verb (2)
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Definition of re-collect (Entry 2 of 2)
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Synonyms & Antonyms for recollect
Synonyms: Verb (1)
flash back (to), hark back (to), harken back (to), hearken back (to), mind [chiefly dialect], recall, remember, reminisce (about), reproduce, think (of)
Synonyms: Verb (2)
calm, collect, compose, contain, control, settle
Antonyms: Verb (1)
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Examples of recollect in a Sentence
Verb (1)
I've been trying to recollect what happened. I don't recollect telling him anything, but maybe I did. She couldn't recollect who had mentioned his name in the first place. From what I recollect, they said four of them were coming.
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Metro bus driver Antonio McClendon recollects his actions after his bus was caught in the crossfire of a shooting that killed one his bus riders. — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, "Bus driver 'made the right call' speeding to hospital with shooting victim, Metro says," 26 Aug. 2019 Sachin Bansal, co-founder of the e-commerce major Flipkart, took to social media to recollect their relationship. — Pramod Mathew, Quartz India, "Tributes pour in as the body of a missing Indian coffee baron is found on the banks of a river," 31 July 2019 Svoboda took a moment to recollect his unit's losses, which include a pair of NFL players in former punter and kickoff specialist Jack Fox and kick return specialist Austin Walter. — Glynn A. Hill, Houston Chronicle, "Rice coaches discuss upcoming season at THSCA convention," 23 July 2019 The image recollected how much Sept. 11, 2001, reconfigured America's politics and anxieties, even though school shooters and white gunmen are more pressing threats these days than Middle East jihadists. — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, "Kathy Griffin made $75 million making people laugh. But the phone鈥檚 not ringing," 22 July 2019 The image recollected how much Sept. 11, 2001, reconfigured America鈥檚 politics and anxieties, even though school shooters and white gunmen are more pressing threats these days than Middle East jihadists. — Los Angeles Times, "Kathy Griffin fell from the D-list to the S-list. She鈥檚 clawing her way back," 18 July 2019 In his response, Pell's barrister, Walker, said Portelli's evidence was sound, given he was being asked to recollect the events of 22 years ago, as was everyone involved in what have been a difficult case. — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, "Cardinal Pell back in prison while judges consider appeal," 6 June 2019 And as with other events that unfold on social media, #TargetDown inspired hilarious tweets of the apocalypse caused by temporary outage, while others recollected a scene straight out of Mean Girls. — Selena Barrientos, House Beautiful, "Target Cash Registers Were Down Nationwide This Weekend, and People Were Not Having It," 17 June 2019 There was only every single ant鈥檚 explicit sting in the cache of what my flesh had recollected. — Justin Phillip Reed, The New Republic, "This Is Really Happening," 6 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'recollect.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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