RETRIEVE

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

(verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; “I can’t remember saying any such thing”; “I can’t think what her last name was”; “can you remember her phone number?”; “Do you remember that he once loved you?”; “call up memories”

retrieve

(verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master; “train the dog to retrieve”

retrieve

(verb) go for and bring back; “retrieve the car from the parking garage”

recover, retrieve, find, regain

(verb) get or find back; recover the use of; “She regained control of herself”; “She found her voice and replied quickly”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

retrieve (third-person singular simple present retrieves, present participle retrieving, simple past and past participle retrieved)

(transitive) To regain or get back something.

(transitive) To rescue (a creature).

(transitive) To salvage something

(transitive) To remedy or rectify something.

(transitive) To remember or recall something.

(transitive, especially, computing) To fetch or carry back something.

(transitive) To fetch and bring in game.

(intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.

(intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.

(sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.

(obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).

Noun

retrieve (plural retrieves)

A retrieval

(sports) The return of a difficult ball

(obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.

(obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*trieve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retrieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Retrieving.] Etym: [OE. retreven, OF. retrover to find again, recover (il retroevee finds again), F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See Trover.]

1. To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live. Dryden

2. To recall; to bring back. To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits. Berkeley.

3. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge. Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall. Prior. There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved. Burke.

Syn.

– To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.

Re*trieve", v. i. (Sport.)

Definition: To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.

Re*trieve", n.

1. A seeking again; a discovery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.] Nares.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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