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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

... has been able to retrieve his character, if he has openly confessed his fault and taken ...

— A Doll's House • Henrik Ibsen

... coldly; but I spoke energetically—perhaps, as some told me afterwards, actually eloquently. When I got heated, I alluded to my former stay at D * * * *, and said (while my heart sunk at the bravado which I was uttering) that I should consider it a glory to retrieve my character with them, and devote myself to the cause of the oppressed, in the very locality whence had first arisen their unjust and pardonable suspicions. In short, generous, trusting hearts as they were, and always are, I talked them round; they shook me ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... the younger Omar showed a commendable tendency toward reform. The sensitive Soul of the poet was ever cankered with the thought that his father's jovial habits had put him in a false position, and that it was his filial duty to retrieve the family reputation. It was his life work to inculcate into the semi-barbaric minds of the people with whom he had taken abode the thought that the alcoholic pleasures of his father were false joys, and that (as sung ...

— The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. (The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym Jr.) • Wallace Irwin

... of the enemy, perceiving the fatal consequences of their disunited order of sailing, now endeavoured to retrieve the day, and to break through the British line. A vice-admiral, in a three-decker, led them, and was reaching up to the Victory just as she had come up to tack in her station. The vice-admiral stood on with ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844 • Various

... boy's eyes were glowing. The thought that he individually could do something to retrieve the awful shame of his sister's treachery spurred him to activity. It needed no persuasion on Lucile's part to induce him to go. She made him put on some old clothes and stuffed a piece of bread and cheese ...

— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

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