Synonyms for retrieve
rɪˈtriv

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1. recover, retrieve, find, regain(verb)

   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. retrieve(verb)

   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. retrieve(verb)

   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, think(verb)

   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

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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

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1. retrieve(v. a.)

   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. George Filenko:

   This video in particular is on a particular type of hard drive that they have the technology to retrieve it off of.

2. Abu Osama:

   There are some families that have been buried under the rubble and no one is able to retrieve their bodies, the regime is just burning and destroying ... and then trying to advance on several fronts.

3. Anuj Somany:

   It is often easier to retrieve the ten years old papers in a dilapidated building of many government organizations than to trace out even the ten months old files in a well-furnished office of most private organizations and this is enough to understand who has better efficiency & effectiveness between them.

4. William Barr:

   People who have lost the ability to speak can’t retrieve words or maintain a rhythm in their speech.

5. Jinshiro Motoyama:

   They'd been there before I was born so I coexisted alongside them, but I remember kicking a soccer ball into one by mistake when I was around six years old. I couldn't go in to retrieve it -- and it only hit me why when I grew up.

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