Recollect
verb
To remember or think of something from the past.
Can you recollect where you left your keys?
Often appears as...
- recollect about something
- recollect that something happened
verb
To collect or gather something again.
The research team had to recollect their samples after noticing an error in their data
Often appears as...
- recollect data
- recollect samples
verb
To remember or think of something from the past.
Can you recollect where you left your keys?
Often appears as...
- recollect about something
- recollect that something happened
verb
To collect or gather something again.
The research team had to recollect their samples after noticing an error in their data
Often appears as...
- recollect data
- recollect samples
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Reflection
Recollect often hints at a deeper, sometimes emotional act of remembering.
She recollected her grandmother's stories with a tearful smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Use 'recollect' when referring to an event or detail from the past.
I can barely recollect the events of that day.
Pro Tip 3/3Effortful Reminder
'Recollect' sometimes implies an effort to bring a memory back to mind.
He closed his eyes to recollect the code.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Reflection
Recollect often hints at a deeper, sometimes emotional act of remembering.
She recollected her grandmother's stories with a tearful smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Use 'recollect' when referring to an event or detail from the past.
I can barely recollect the events of that day.
Pro Tip 3/3Effortful Reminder
'Recollect' sometimes implies an effort to bring a memory back to mind.
He closed his eyes to recollect the code.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Reflection
Recollect often hints at a deeper, sometimes emotional act of remembering.
She recollected her grandmother's stories with a tearful smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Use 'recollect' when referring to an event or detail from the past.
I can barely recollect the events of that day.
Pro Tip 3/3Effortful Reminder
'Recollect' sometimes implies an effort to bring a memory back to mind.
He closed his eyes to recollect the code.
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Introducing a New...
well as the fact that it's such a long living tree so we're coming to the end of one year and the beginning of another year and I think for a lot of us as we do this we start to recollect our thoughts and go oh my goodness gracious I can't believe I'm this old and what have I done with my life and that can
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Introducing a New...
well as the fact that it's such a long living tree so we're coming to the end of one year and the beginning of another year and I think for a lot of us as we do this we start to recollect our thoughts and go oh my goodness gracious I can't believe I'm this old and what have I done with my life and that can
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Quote examples
Ian Anthony Dale
American Actor
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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Anupam Kher
Indian Actor
Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
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Alexander Hamilton
American Politician
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
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Sudha Chandran
As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.
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Vinoba Bhave
Indian Educator
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
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William Wordsworth
English Poet
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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Deepti Naval
Indian Actress
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching.
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Jack Levine
American Artist
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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Ian Anthony Dale
American Actor
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
Quote examples
Anupam Kher
Indian Actor
Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
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Alexander Hamilton
American Politician
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
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Sudha Chandran
As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.
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Vinoba Bhave
Indian Educator
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
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William Wordsworth
English Poet
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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Deepti Naval
Indian Actress
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching.
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Jack Levine
American Artist
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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