to recollect

Examples

• All

• Indeed, one eyewitness, recollecting the event many years later, had forgotten about the storm associated with the wave.

  Academic text (2009)

• - You recollect seeing us there?

  Let Him Go (2020)

• Perhaps what he means is that it's impossible to recollect the length of time that a dream takes to dream.

• The actress needs time to recollect her thoughts.

• We must 'recollect' ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative of ourselves.

  Academic text (1997)

• If you could recollect, what is your greatest or fondest journey?

• I just don't recollect those times when I got really stressed or nervous.

  Jay Shetty Podcast

• [Nana] I recollect how we lived in the time before freedom come, in the old days.

  Daughters of the Dust (1991)

• Don't you recollect, John?

  A Damsel in Distress (1937)

• I often recollect my childhood summers spent at my grandparents' farm.

Synonyms

R

to remember

vsto recollect

∞ 1.0

To think about something from the past

is used more for deliberate or formal acts of remembering

T

to think

vsto recollect

∞ 1.0

To remember something from before

leans more toward a deliberate act of calling a memory to mind

R

to recall

vsto recollect

∞ 2.4

Remember something from the past

is often used with a slightly more formal or deliberate tone

L

to look back

vsto recollect

323 2.6

Think about the past, especially a time you remember

is narrower, referring more to single memories than general reflection

T

to think back

vsto recollect

92 1.9

Remember things that happened in the past

implies a more formal or effortful act of bringing memory back

R

to retrieve

vsto recollect

44 4.1

To bring a memory or fact back into your mind

focuses more on everyday remembering rather than the retrieval process

R

to retrace

vsto recollect

12 4.4

To think back over the events or steps that led to something

is simpler, focusing on recalling rather than reconstructing details

C

to call up

vsto recollect

11 3.2

To make a memory or image appear in your mind

describes the same remembering but more as an internal act

C

to call back

vsto recollect

4 2.3

Remember something from the past

is slightly more formal or reflective when used in speech

C

to cast one's mind back

vsto recollect

2 6.3

Think about something that happened in the past to remember it

is similar but is used more generally, not only deliberate acts

Antonyms

F

to forget

∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

How Well

to recall

∞ 2.4

to recollect

20 3.7

to misremember

6 6.7

to forget

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology