recollect
verb /ˌrekəˈlekt/
/ˌrekəˈlekt/
[transitive, intransitive] not used in the progressive tenses (rather formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recollect | /ˌrekəˈlekt/ /ˌrekəˈlekt/ |
| he / she / it recollects | /ˌrekəˈlekts/ /ˌrekəˈlekts/ |
| past simple recollected | /ˌrekəˈlektɪd/ /ˌrekəˈlektɪd/ |
| past participle recollected | /ˌrekəˈlektɪd/ /ˌrekəˈlektɪd/ |
| past simple recollecting | /ˌrekəˈlektɪŋ/ /ˌrekəˈlektɪŋ/ |
| past participle recollecting | /ˌrekəˈlektɪŋ/ /ˌrekəˈlektɪŋ/ |
- to remember something, especially by making an effort to remember it synonym recall
- recollect (something) She could no longer recollect the details of the letter.
- As far as I can recollect, she wasn't there on that occasion.
- recollect what, how, etc… I don't recollect what he said.
- recollect that… I recollect that we were all gathered in the kitchen.
- recollect (somebody/something) doing something I recollect him/his saying that it was dangerous.
- + speech ‘It was just before the war,’ she recollected.
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘gather’): from Latin recollect- ‘gathered back’, from the verb recolligere, from re- ‘back’ + colligere ‘collect’.