retrieve

[re·trieve]

When you retrieve something, you bring it back. Lots of dogs love to retrieve tennis balls, bringing them back to you over and over again.

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To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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"

Verb
of trained dogs

Verb
get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

v. t.
To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

v. t.
To recall; to bring back.

v. t.
To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.

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

n.
A seeking again; a discovery.

n.
The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.

Retrieve

Re*trieve" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retrieved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Retrieving.] [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.

2. To recall; to bring back.

To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits.

3. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.

Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved.

Syn. -- To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.

Retrieve

Re*trieve" , v. i. (Sport.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.

Retrieve

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.

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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

A seeking again; a discovery.

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Usage Examples

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

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