Synonyms for retrieve
rɪˈtrivre·trieve

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1. retrieve

   The transitive use of recover in the sense of cure, heal, etc., as in 2 Kings v, 6, "That thou mayest recover him of his leprosy," is now practically obsolete. The chief transitive use of recover is in the sense to obtain again after losing, regain, repossess, etc.; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover health. The intransitive sense, be cured, be restored, etc., is very common; as, to recover from sickness, terror, or misfortune.

   Synonyms:
   be cured, be healed, be restored, cure, heal, reanimate, recover, recruit, recuperate, regain, repossess, restore, resume

   Antonyms:
   die, fail, grow worse, relapse, sink

   Preposition:
   From; rarely of; (Law) to recover judgment against, to recover damages of or from a person.

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1. retrieve

   Synonyms:
   recover, regain, rescue, repair, restore

   Antonyms:
   lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, impair, deteriorate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. recover, retrieve, find, regainverb

   get or find back; recover the use of

   "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

   Synonyms:
   line up, detect, go back, find oneself, recoup, get, get hold, recollect, recuperate, find, reclaim, rule, notice, convalesce, call up, chance, determine, see, find out, come up, think, encounter, happen, feel, incur, observe, recall, witness, call back, recover, ascertain, bump, remember, regain, obtain, discover, receive

2. retrieveverb

   go for and bring back

   "retrieve the car from the parking garage"

   Synonyms:
   call up, find, remember, recollect, call back, recall, think, recover, regain

3. retrieveverb

   run after, pick up, and bring to the master

   "train the dog to retrieve"

   Synonyms:
   call up, find, remember, recollect, call back, recall, think, recover, regain

4. 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, call in, rally, hark back, call up, echo, guess, come back, call, think, intend, conceive, opine, bring forward, imagine, recall, mobilise, commend, believe, call back, think back, think of, ring, consider, remember, cogitate, withdraw, regain, telephone

Matched Categories

1. • Fetch

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1. retrieveverb

   Synonyms:
   regain, recover, restore, repair, re-establish, get again

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1. List of paraphrases for "retrieve":

   recover, regain, retrieving, retrieves, recovering, reclaim, retrieved, extract, retreive, recoup, retrive, recovery, restore, recuperate, repossess, retrieval, recapture, fetch, extracting

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How to use retrieve in a sentence?

1. Zhang Wuzong:

   Creditors will come to retrieve their debts, and not just the banks, your personal assets are frozen, and you will be sued. It is terrifying, so why don't these bosses simply run away?

2. George Filenko:

   Homeland Security has got advanced equipment, this video in particular is on a particular type of hard drive that they have the technology to retrieve it off of.

3. David Kennedy:

   When you move that over to a public email address or a personal account, you lose all of that backup capability, so there's no way to actually go back and retrieve it.

4. Gideon McKean:

   They got into a canoe, intending simply to retrieve the ball, and somehow got pushed by wind or tide into the open bay, about 30 minutes later they were spotted by an onlooker from land, who saw them far out from shore, and called the police. After that last sighting, they were not seen again. The Coast Guard recovered their canoe, which was capsized and miles away, at approximately 6:30( Thursday) evening.

5. Rank Secure CEO Baruch Labunski:

   Even if there’s a Wi-Fi or internet outage or slowdown, having important documents in your digital wallet means you can retrieve them no matter what.