Synonyms of the word retrieve


RETRIEVEACQUIRE - BRING - CONVEY - FETCH - FIND - GET - RECALL - RECOLLECT - RECOVER - REGAIN - REMEMBER - THINK

retrieve

  • v. (transitive) To regain or get back something.
  • v. (transitive) To rescue (a) creature(s).
  • v. (transitive) To salvage something.
  • v. (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
  • v. (transitive) To remember or recall something.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch or carry back something.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
  • v. (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
  • v. (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
  • v. (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
  • n. A retrieval.
  • n. (sports) The return of a difficult ball.
  • n. (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
  • n. (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

acquire

  • v. (transitive) To get.
  • v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
  • v. (medicine) To contract.
  • v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

bring

  • v. (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
  • v. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
  • v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  • v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
  • interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.

convey

  • v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
  • v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
  • v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
  • v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
  • v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

fetch

  • v. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
  • v. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  • v. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  • v. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  • v. (rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh).
  • v. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  • v. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
  • v. To reduce; to throw.
  • v. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
  • v. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
  • n. The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting…
  • n. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another…
  • n. The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one…
  • n. (computing) The act of fetching data.

find

  • v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
  • v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
  • v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
  • v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
  • v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To point out.
  • v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
  • v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
  • v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
  • n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
  • n. The act of finding.

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

recall

  • v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
  • v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
  • v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
  • v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
  • v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
  • n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
  • n. Memory; the ability to remember.
  • n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

recollect

  • v. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
  • v. To compose oneself.

recover

  • v. (transitive) To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury…
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To get better from; to get over.
  • v. (intransitive) To get better, regain one's health.
  • v. (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
  • v. (intransitive, law) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
  • v. (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation.
  • v. (transitive, law) To gain by legal process.
  • n. (obsolete) Recovery.
  • n. (military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and…
  • v. To cover again.
  • v. (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

regain

  • v. (transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.

remember

  • v. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
  • v. To memorize; to put something into memory.
  • v. To keep in mind, be mindful of.
  • v. To not forget (to do something required).
  • v. To convey greetings from.
  • v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
  • v. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

think

  • v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
  • v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
  • v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
  • v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
  • v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
  • v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
  • v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
  • v. To presume; to venture.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
  • v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

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