Recollect

Quick meaning: Recollect is a verb meaning To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

Meaning

To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
2. To compose oneself.

Example Sentences

I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.

The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.

The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.

I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths.

Word Forms

• recollects
• recollecting
• recollected
• re-collect

Synonyms for recollect

Depending on context, synonyms include recall, think, retrieve, remember, remind, call up.

Antonyms for recollect

Common opposites include block, forget.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remind, remember, think, retrieve, recall, call up.

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