Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.
- 2transitive verb
To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4noun
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
- 5verb
recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
"I can't remember saying any such thing"
"I can't think what her last name was"
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