Dictionary Entry
retrieve
retrieve is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
- 2transitive verb
To recall; to bring back.
- 3transitive verb
To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.
- 4intransitive verb
To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.
- 5noun
A seeking again; a discovery.
- 6noun
The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
- 7verb
recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
"I can't remember saying any such thing"
"I can't think what her last name was"
- 8verb
run after, pick up, and bring to the master
"train the dog to retrieve"
- 9verb
go for and bring back
"retrieve the car from the parking garage"
- 10verb
get or find back; recover the use of
"She regained control of herself"
"She found her voice and replied quickly"
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