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# recollect

«recollect» in Mova's school dictionary: **To remember something from the past, often with effort:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (recollect, recollects, recollected, recollecting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To remember something from the past, often with effort: «I don't recollect his name.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#m1)

2) (re-collect, with a hyphen) To collect or gather again: «re-collect the worksheets». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#m2)

3) (formal) To calm yourself or get your thoughts together: «She paused to recollect herself.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history (witness accounts, memoirs) characters recollect events; in everyday life it is a slightly formal way of saying «remember». Phrases: «as far as I can recollect», «recollect seeing», «recollect oneself».

### examples

- I can't recollect where I put my keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#x1)
- Grandma recollects the day the war ended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#x2)
- As far as I can recollect, we met at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#x3)
- Do you recollect seeing a red car? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#x4)
- He tried to recollect the words of the poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#x5)
- The witness could not recollect the man's face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#x6)
- I am quite sure if I recollect all this tomorrow, it will appear utterly ridiculous and absurd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/#x7)

### note

Noun: recollection (a memory). Use «recollect + noun» or «recollect + -ing»: recollect meeting him. More formal than «remember». Note: «re-collect» with a hyphen means gather again and has a different stress (ree-col-LECT).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recollect» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recollect/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.