recall
verb /rɪˈkɔːl/
/rɪˈkɔːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recall | /rɪˈkɔːl/ /rɪˈkɔːl/ |
| he / she / it recalls | /rɪˈkɔːlz/ /rɪˈkɔːlz/ |
| past simple recalled | /rɪˈkɔːld/ /rɪˈkɔːld/ |
| past participle recalled | /rɪˈkɔːld/ /rɪˈkɔːld/ |
| -ing form recalling | /rɪˈkɔːlɪŋ/ /rɪˈkɔːlɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] (formal) (not used in the progressive tenses) to remember something synonym recollect
- recall something She could not recall his name.
- Many years later Muir recalled his days at Glasgow University.
- I cannot recall a time when the country faced such serious problems.
- 'I may have; I don't recall,' she said.
- If I recall correctly, he lives in Luton.
- recall doing something I can't recall meeting her before.
- I vaguely recall seeing the film.
- I seem to recall receiving an email from a reader a while ago.
- recall somebody/something doing something I seem to recall him mentioning a brother once.
- recall that… He recalled that she always came home late on Wednesdays.
- He later recalled that he had met her once.
- recall what, when, etc. Can you recall exactly what happened?
- I can vividly recall where and when I saw them.
- recall + speech ‘It was on a Thursday in March,’ he recalled.
Extra Examples- Becky could still recall that first meeting clearly.
- I am old enough now to wistfully recall moments of my youth.
- I couldn't quite recall the date.
- I recall reading in an interview that he loved to cook.
- I seem to recall that she said she was going away.
- I well recall walking the five miles to school every morning.
- She could easily recall the smell of the orange groves.
- She recalled how she would go for walks along the beach late at night.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- clearly
- distinctly
- vividly
- …
- seem to
- be able to
- can
- …
- recall how…
- recall seeing, reading, hearing, etc. something
- [transitive] recall something (not used in the progressive tenses) to make somebody think of something synonym evoke
- The poem recalls Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’.
- [transitive] to order somebody to return
- recall somebody Both countries recalled their ambassadors.
- recall somebody to something He was recalled to military duty.
- They have both been recalled to the Welsh squad (= selected as members of the team after a time when they were not selected).
- [transitive] recall something to ask for something to be returned, often because there is something wrong with it
- The company has recalled all the faulty hairdryers.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a verb): from re- ‘again’ + call, suggested by Latin revocare or French rappeler ‘call back’.