Usually means: Bring past experiences to mind.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word recollect:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. recollect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recollect: Merriam-Webster
  3. Recollect, recollect, recollect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recollect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recollect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recollect: Vocabulary.com
  7. Recollect, recollect: Wordnik
  8. recollect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Recollect, recollect: Wiktionary
  10. recollect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recollect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Recollect, recollect: Dictionary.com
  13. recollect: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. recollect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Recollect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Recollect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. recollect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. recollect: Rhymezone
  19. recollect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. recollect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. recollect: FreeDictionary.org
  22. recollect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. recollect: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recollect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recollect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recollect: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
▸ verb:  To compose oneself.
▸ noun:  A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.

Similar:
retrieve, remind, recall, call back, remember, think, call up, recur, think back, recombobulate, more...

Opposite:
forget, unremember, disremember

Types:
remember, recall, reminisce, retrieve, retain, recollection, remembrance, retention, more...

Phrases:
opposite of recollect, more...

Adjectives:
present, first, european, polished, best, scarce, least, franciscan, prefent, self, net

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Similar:
retrieve, remind, recall, call back, remember, think, call up, recur, think back, recombobulate, more...

Opposite:
forget, unremember, disremember

Types:
remember, recall, reminisce, retrieve, retain, recollection, remembrance, retention, more...

Phrases:
opposite of recollect, more...

Adjectives:
present, first, european, polished, best, scarce, least, franciscan, prefent, self, net

Colors:
    sepia,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     rust, more...



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