recollect
recollect is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.
- transitive verb. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
- transitive verb. Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
- noun. A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
- 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
recall, remember, retrieve, think
Common word forms
recollects, recollected, recollecting, recollectable
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for RECOLLECT lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.