Recall

/ɹɪˈkɔːl/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
2. (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
3. (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
4. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
6. (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
8. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).

Example Sentences

He was recalled to service after his retirement.

She was recalled to London for the trial.

Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.

That stop-start-stop has created a groundswell of anger toward Mr. Newsom, a Democrat in the third year of his first term, that is increasingly fueling a movement to recall him from office in one of the bluest of blue states.

Nevertheless, there were many passengers on the recent special trains to whom the immaculate little 80-year-old "Terrier," No. 32636, formerly Fenchurch, and its two L.B.S.C.R. coaches, recalled nostalgic memories of the old days on the line, when the trains were always spick and span; and days when the Kemp Town branch train was packed to capacity.

So many people have come and gone Their faces fade as the years go by Yet I still recall as I wander on As clear as the sun in the summer sky

In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.

He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.

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Word Forms

• recalls
• recalling
• recalled
• recal
• re-call

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