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/rɪtrˈiv/ /ritrˈiv/ Listen

verb

Retrieve v. t. (past & past part. retrieved; pres. part. retrieving)

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. "With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live."

To recall; to bring back. "To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits."

To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge. "Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall." "There is much to be done... and much to be retrieved."

Synonyms: To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.

Retrieve v. i. (Sport.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.

noun

Retrieve n.

A seeking again; a discovery. (Obs.)

The recovery of game once sprung; an old sporting term. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Retrieve'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Retrieve" Quotes from Famous Books

... 2,500 British officers and men fell in the fight. In the face of the Afghan rejoicings Lord Gough claimed a victory. The British War Office, however, hastily despatched Sir Charles Napier to India to supersede Lord Gough. There was still time for that commander to retrieve himself. General Whish captured the town of Multan, and by terrible bombardment of the citadel brought Mulraj to surrender. General Whish then joined forces with Lord Gough in his final struggle with Sher Singh. ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... our side when I chanced to notice that the Russian lines on their left were weak, the bulk of the men having been rushed toward the centre, where the attack was being most fiercely pressed. In an instant I recognised that here was our opportunity, our only opportunity perhaps, to retrieve the fortune of the day. Turning to my companion, ...

— Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun - A Story of the Russo-Japanese War • Harry Collingwood

... The Passmores were tender of each other's eccentricities, admiring of each other's virtues. A wolf race nourished on the knees of purple kings, how should they ever come down to wearing any man's collar, to slink at heel and retrieve for him? ...

— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke

... fighting to a single enemy battalion.... This disgraceful act not only destroys the reputation of this regiment, but necessitates its name being struck off the list of our army corps, until new deeds of heroism retrieve its character. His Apostolic Majesty has accordingly ordered the dissolution of this regiment, and the deposition of its banners in ...

— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek

... experience not to see that it was then impossible to retrieve what the admiral had lost, but he ...

— With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene

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