Word Meanings - RETRIEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. 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,

Additional info about word: RETRIEVE

, F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. 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. Dryden 2. To recall; to bring back. To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits. Berkeley. 3. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge. Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall. Prior. There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved. Burke. Syn. -- To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETRIEVE)

• Clean Clarify
• disencumber
• disentangle
• disembarrass
• vindicate
• liberate
• set free
• release
• exonerate
• exculpate
• justify
• retrieve
• acquit
• absolve
• whitewash
• extricate
• eliminate
• Recover
• Regain
• repossess
• resume
• recruit
• heal
• cure
• revive
• restore
• reanimate
• save
• Redeem
• Repurchase
• regain
• make amends for
• recompense
• ransom
• rescue
• recover
• satisfy
• fulfil
• discharge
• react
• reprocure
• reobtain
• Repair
• Restore
• mend
• relit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RETRIEVE)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose

Related words: (words related to RETRIEVE)

• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• REVIVEMENT
  Revival.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• RECRUITER
  One who, or that which, recruits.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• CLEANING
  1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
• REVIVE
  To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
• CLEANLINESS
  State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• CLEANLY
  1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• RECRUIT
  recruiting, recruit, from recro, p.p. recr, to grow again) from an older recluter, properly, to patch, to mend ; pref. re- + 1. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh