单词 | recollect |
释义 | recollect (once / 140 pages) v To recollect is to remember. You might struggle to recollect your high school French but have no trouble recollecting every ingredient in your dad's cinnamon roll recipe. If you ask your grandfather to recollect his experiences in high school, you want him to remember some great stories from his youth. The Latin root word, recolligere, means "to collect again," from the prefix re, "again," and colligere, "gather or collect." You can think of recollect as meaning "to gather again from your memory." WORD FAMILYrecollect: recollected, recollecting, recollection, recollective, recollects+/collect: collectable, collected, collectible, collecting, collection, collective, collector, collects, recollect/collected: collectedly, self-collected, uncollected/collectible: collectibles, uncollectible/collecting: collectings/collection: collections/collective: collectively, collectives, collectivise, collectivism, collectivize/collectivise: collectivisation, collectivised/collectivism: collectivisms, collectivist, collectivistic/collectivist: collectivists/collectivistic: collectivistically/collectivization: collectivizations/collectivize: collectivization, collectivized, collectivizing/collector: collectors/recollection: recollections USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s funny,” he says, “what a young man recollects.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) He recollected his thought back then: “‘What the hell are we talking about?’” Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) Through these objects, recollected dialogue and his own powers of speculation, Chabon constructs a loving, partial portrait of an unlikely, volatile and durable marriage. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) v recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection Syn|Ant|Hypo call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think blank out, block, draw a blank, forget be unable to remember know perceive as familiar recognise, recognizeperceive to be the same brush up, refresh, reviewrefresh one's memory identifyconsider to be equal or the same |
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