recall

recall is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
2. transitive verb. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
3. transitive verb. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
4. noun. A calling back; a revocation.
5. noun. A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
6. noun. the act of removing an official by petition
7. noun. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

   "he has total recall of the episode"

   Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence

8. noun. a bugle call that signals troops to return
9. noun. a call to return

   "the recall of our ambassador"

10. noun. a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

    Synonyms: callback

11. verb. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

    "I can't remember saying any such thing"

    "I can't think what her last name was"

    Synonyms: recollect, remember, retrieve, think

12. verb. cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression

    "She was recalled by a loud laugh"

13. verb. summon to return

    "The ambassador was recalled to his country"

    "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"

14. verb. go back to something earlier

    "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

    Synonyms: return

15. verb. cause to be returned

    "recall the defective auto tires"

    "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

    Synonyms: withdraw

16. verb. make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

    "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"

17. verb. call to mind

    "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

    Synonyms: echo

Synonyms

recollection, reminiscence, callback, recollect, remember, retrieve, think, return, withdraw, echo

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recall:

caller, cellar

Common word forms

recalls, recalled, recaller, recalling, recallable, recallment

Words from these letters

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