Recall

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English

Verb

Recall (third-person singular simple present Recalls, present participle Recalling, simple past and past participle Recalled)

  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.
    He was recalled to service after his retirement.
    She was recalled to London for the trial.
  3. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
  4. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 10:
      In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
  6. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).

Noun

Recall (countable and uncountable; plural Recalls)
  1. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
  2. Memory; the ability to remember.
  3. In Information retrieval, the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search

Adverbs for Recall

vividly; affectionately; palpably; momentarily; distinctively; perpetually; bitterly; vaguely; greedily; idly; passionately.

Thesaurus

abolish, abolishment, abolition, abrogate, abrogation, anamnesis, annul, annulment, arouse, awaken, bid come, bring back, bring to mind, bring to recollection, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to mind, call together, call up, cancel, canceling, cancellation, carry back, cassation, cite, commitment to memory, conjure, conjure up, constitutional referendum, convene, convoke, countermand, counterorder, defeasance, demand, denial, deny, direct initiative, disannul, disavow, disavowal, disown, do away with, educe, elicit, evoke, exercise of memory, extract, facultative referendum, flashback, forswear, give a hint, give the cue, go back, go back over, hark back, hindsight, hold the promptbook, indent, indirect initiative, initiative, invalidate, invalidation, invoke, jog the memory, learning by heart, look back, looking back, make void, mandate, mandatory referendum, memoir, memorization, memorizing, memory, mind, muster, muster up, nag, nudge, nullification, nullify, order up, override, overrule, page, palinode, plebiscite, plebiscitum, preconize, prompt, prompt the mind, put in mind, put in remembrance, recall to mind, recalling, recant, recantation, recapture, recollect, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reevoke, referendum, reflect, reflection, remember, remembering, remembrance, remind, remind one of, reminisce, reminiscence, renege, repeal, requisition, rescind, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retain, retrace, retract, retraction, retrospect, retrospection, return, reversal, reverse, review, review in retrospect, revive, revocation, revoke, revokement, rote, rote memory, rouse, see in retrospect, send after, send for, serve, set aside, setting aside, statutory referendum, stir, study, subpoena, suggest, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, suspend, suspension, take, take back, think back, think of, use hindsight, vacate, vacation, vacatur, void, voidance, voiding, waive, waiver, waiving, waken, withdraw, withdrawal, write off, write-off

Etymology

From re- + call, modelled on Latin revocare or French rappeler.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /rɪˈkɔːl/

Pronunciation

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Verb

to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
to remember, recollect
to order the return of (faulty product)

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