Word Meanings - RECALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador. 2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree. Passed sentence may not be recall'd. Shak. 3. To call

Additional info about word: RECALL

1. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador. 2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree. Passed sentence may not be recall'd. Shak. 3. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECALL)

• Remember
• Recollect
• recall
• retain
• bear in mind
• mind

Related words: (words related to RECALL)

• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• RETAIN
  1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisibleretain." Shak. Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
• RECOLLECT
  1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. 2. Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect
• RECOLLECTIVE
  Having the power of recollecting. J. Foster.
• REMEMBERER
  One who remembers.
• RECALLABLE
  Capable of being recalled.
• RETAINABLE
  Capable of being retained.
• RECALLMENT
  Recall. R. Browning.
• RECALL
  1. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador. 2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree. Passed sentence may not be recall'd. Shak. 3. To call
• RETAINAL
  The act of retaining; retention.
• RETAINER
  1. One who, or that which, retains. 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. 4. The act of a
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• DISREMEMBER
  To fail to remember; to forget.
• PRECOLLECTION
  A collection previously made.