Synonyms for recall
rɪˈkɔl; rɪˈkɔl, ˈri kɔl for 7-13re·call

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1. recall

   Abjure, discard, forswear, recall, recant, renounce, retract, and revoke, like abandon, imply some previous connection. Renounce (Latin re, back, and nuntio, bear a message) is to declare against and give up formally and definitively; as, to renounce the pomps and vanities of the world. Recant (Latin re, back, and canto, sing) is to take back or deny formally and publicly, as a belief that one has held or professed. Retract (Latin re, back, and traho, draw) is to take back something that one has said as not true or as what one is not ready to maintain; as, to retract a charge or accusation; one recants what was especially his own, he retracts what was directed against another. Repudiate (Latin re, back, or away, and pudeo, feel shame) is primarily to renounce as shameful, hence to divorce, as a wife; thus in general to put away with emphatic and determined repulsion; as, to repudiate a debt. To deny is to affirm to be not true or not binding; as, to deny a statement or a relationship; or to refuse to grant as something requested; as, his mother could not deny him what he desired. To discard is to cast away as useless or worthless; thus, one discards a worn garment; a coquette discards a lover. Revoke (Latin re, back, and voco, call), etymologically the exact equivalent of the English recall, is to take back something given or granted; as, to revoke a command, a will, or a grant; recall may be used in the exact sense of revoke, but is often applied to persons, as revoke is not; we recall a messenger and revoke the order with which he was charged. Abjure (Latin ab, away, and juro, swear) is etymologically the exact equivalent of the Saxon forswear, signifying to put away formally and under oath, as an error, heresy, or evil practise, or a condemned and detested person. A man abjures his religion, recants his belief, abjures or renounces his allegiance, repudiates another's claim, renounces his own, retracts a false statement. A person may deny, disavow, disclaim, disown what has been truly or falsely imputed to him or supposed to be his. He may deny his signature, disavow the act of his agent, disown his child; he may repudiate a just claim or a base suggestion. A native of the United States can not abjure or renounce allegiance to the Queen of England, but will promptly deny or repudiate it. Compare ABANDON.

   Synonyms:
   abandon, abjure, deny, disavow, discard, disclaim, disown, forswear, recant, refuse, reject, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke

   Antonyms:
   acknowledge, advocate, assert, avow, cherish, claim, defend, hold, maintain, own, proclaim, retain, uphold, vindicate

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1. recall, callbacknoun

   a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

   Synonyms:
   reminiscence, recollection, callback

   Antonyms:
   issue, supply

2. recallnoun

   a call to return

   "the recall of our ambassador"

   Synonyms:
   reminiscence, recollection, callback

   Antonyms:
   supply, issue

3. recallnoun

   a bugle call that signals troops to return

   Synonyms:
   reminiscence, recollection, callback

   Antonyms:
   supply, issue

4. recall, recollection, reminiscencenoun

   the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

   "he has total recall of the episode"

   Synonyms:
   anamnesis, reminiscence, recollection, remembrance, callback

   Antonyms:
   supply, issue

5. recallverb

   the act of removing an official by petition

   Synonyms:
   reminiscence, recollection, callback

   Antonyms:
   supply, issue

6. remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, thinkverb

   recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

   "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"

   Synonyms:
   recover, cerebrate, suppose, mean, reckon, commemorate, mobilize, phone, return, recollect, find, retrieve, call in, rally, hark back, call up, echo, guess, come back, call, think, intend, conceive, opine, bring forward, imagine, mobilise, commend, believe, call back, think back, think of, ring, consider, remember, cogitate, withdraw, regain, telephone

   Antonyms:
   issue, supply

7. hark back, return, come back, recallverb

   go back to something earlier

   "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

   Synonyms:
   reelect, bring back, echo, retrovert, return, recollect, deliver, retrieve, call in, refund, hark back, give back, call up, rejoin, revert, devolve, repay, turn back, come back, retort, think, riposte, give, take back, pass, render, yield, regress, call back, fall, generate, remember, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   issue, supply

8. echo, recallverb

   call to mind

   "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

   Synonyms:
   call back, call in, recollect, retrieve, resound, call up, remember, echo, think, repeat, return, ring, hark back, come back, reverberate, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   supply, issue

9. recall, call backverb

   summon to return

   "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, call up, return, echo, recollect, come back, withdraw, call back, hark back, think, remember, call in

   Antonyms:
   supply, issue

10. recallverb

    cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression

    "She was recalled by a loud laugh"

    Synonyms:
    retrieve, call up, return, echo, recollect, come back, withdraw, call back, hark back, think, remember, call in

    Antonyms:
    issue, supply

11. recallverb

    make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

    "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"

    Synonyms:
    retrieve, call up, return, echo, recollect, come back, withdraw, call back, hark back, think, remember, call in

    Antonyms:
    supply, issue

12. recall, call in, call back, withdrawverb

    cause to be returned

    "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

    Synonyms:
    swallow, sequester, echo, seclude, back away, crawfish out, retire, recollect, crawfish, retreat, visit, take, call in, back out, hark back, call up, take back, return, come back, pull away, take out, think, disengage, unsay, bow out, draw back, recede, move back, call back, call, sequestrate, draw, draw off, take away, adjourn, remember, withdraw, retrieve, pull back, pull in one's horns, remove

    Antonyms:
    supply, issue

Matched Categories

1. • Bugle Call
   • Call
   • Cancel
   • Focus
   • Memory
   • Refer
   • Request
   • Resemble

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1. recallverb

   Synonyms:
   revoke, retract, recant, repeal, rescind, annul, overrule, cancel, nullify, countermand, set aside

2. recallnoun

   Synonyms:
   revocation, recantation, retraction

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recallnoun

   Synonyms:
   revocation, rescission, repeal, recantation, retraction

2. recallverb

   Synonyms:
   revoke, annul, retract, recant, rescind, repeal, abjure, remember, recollect

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1. List of paraphrases for "recall":

   remind, remember, reminder, booster, recalling, revocation, reminders, reiterate, withdrawal, bring-forward, rappel, mention, remembering, background, recalls, call-back, recovery

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1. Ford Fusion:

   Safety is always a top priority, unlike other Takata passenger-side airbag parts previously under recall, these driver-side airbags contain a moisture-absorbing [ material ] and perform differently. We believe our extensive data demonstrated that a safety recall was not warranted for the driver-side airbag. However, we respect NHTSA's decision and will issue a recall.

2. French Proverb:

   What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.

3. Rotarian:

   If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

4. Gavin Newsom:

   It is what it is. This is a Republican recall, an RNC-backed Republican recall of White supremacists, anti-Semites and people who are opposed to immigration and immigrants is an accurate assessment of who's behind this recall.

5. Rachel Carson:

   For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.