Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to recollect
Participle: recollected
Gerund: recollecting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | recollect |
| you | recollect |
| he;she;it | recollects |
| we | recollect |
| you | recollect |
| they | recollect |
Perfect
| I | have recollected |
| you | have recollected |
| he;she;it | has recollected |
| we | have recollected |
| you | have recollected |
| they | have recollected |
Past
| I | recollected |
| you | recollected |
| he;she;it | recollected |
| we | recollected |
| you | recollected |
| they | recollected |
Pluperfect
| I | had recollected |
| you | had recollected |
| he;she;it | had recollected |
| we | had recollected |
| you | had recollected |
| they | had recollected |
Future
| I | will recollect |
| you | will recollect |
| he;she;it | will recollect |
| we | will recollect |
| you | will recollect |
| they | will recollect |
Future Perfect
| I | will have recollected |
| you | will have recollected |
| he;she;it | will have recollected |
| we | will have recollected |
| you | will have recollected |
| they | will have recollected |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | recollect |
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Perfect
| I | have recollected |
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Imperfect
| I | recollected |
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Pluperfect
| I | had recollected |
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Conditional
Present
| I | would recollect |
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Perfect
| I | would have recollected |
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Imperative
| you | recollect |
| we | Let's recollect |
| you | recollect |
Verbs conjugated like 'recollect'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'recollect'
re-collect,
collect,
reconnect,
recorrect,
misrecollect,
overcollect,
precorrect,
re-elect,
recoalesce,
recoct,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to recall from one's memory
- bear in mind, bethink, keep in mind, mind, recall, remember, think back, umbethink
- remember
- recall, evoke
Antonyms
- remember
- forget, obliterate, overlook, repress
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1559, from L.
recollectus, pp. of
recolligere, lit. "to collect again," from
re- "again" +
colligere "gather" (see collect).
2. Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”). See: Latin '
recolligo'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] holding on to something. I do n't know what. I think it was the boatswain: or it may have been the pump: or possibly the cow. I ca n't say how long I had been there; whether a day or a minute. I recollect trying to think about something (about anything in the whole wide world, I was not particular ) without the smallest effect. I could not even make out which was the sea, and which the sky, for the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] which she could handle; and she very easily learned to place the proper labels upon them. It was evident, however, that the only intellectual exercise was that of imitation and memory. She recollected that the label book was placed upon a book, and she repeated the process first from imitation, next from memory, with only the motive of love of approbation, but apparently without the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Their looks were very sad, and might have moved the sternest visitor to tears, but not to that kind of sorrow which the contemplation of the men awakens. One was a young girl; not twenty, as I recollect; whose snow-white room was hung with the work of some former prisoner, and upon whose downcast face the sun in all its splendour shone down through the high chink in the wall, where one narrow strip [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] that even a dog or any of the more intelligent among beasts, would pine, and mope, and rust away, beneath its influence, would be in itself a sufficient argument against this system. But when we recollect, in addition, how very cruel and severe it is, and that a solitary life is always liable to peculiar and distinct objections of a most deplorable nature, which have arisen here, and call to mind, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the time of the entrance of the stranger, had regarded him with an air of disturbed and uneasy curiosity. He seemed to himself to have met and been acquainted with him somewhere, but he could not recollect. Every few moments, when the man spoke, or moved, or smiled, he would start and fix his eyes on him, and then suddenly withdraw them, as the bright, dark eyes met his with such unconcerned coolness. [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] mulled wine at an hotel where I was staying, and waited a long time for it; at length it was put upon the table with an apology from the landlord that he feared it was n't ‘fixed properly. ’ And I recollect once, at a stage-coach dinner, overhearing a very stern gentleman demand of a waiter who presented him with a plate of underdone roast-beef, ‘whether he called that, fixing God A’mighty 's [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] not surpass. The rising of the moon is more in keeping with the solitary ocean; and has an air of melancholy grandeur, which in its soft and gentle influence, seems to comfort while it saddens. I recollect when I was a very young child having a fancy that the reflection of the moon in water was a path to Heaven, trodden by the spirits of good people on their way to God; and this old feeling often came [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] or a bankruptcy, or of a successful scoundrel, are not gauged by its or his observance of the golden rule, ‘Do as you would be done by, ’ but are considered with reference to their smartness. I recollect, on both occasions of our passing that ill-fated Cairo on the Mississippi, remarking on the bad effects such gross deceits must have when they exploded, in generating a want of confidence abroad, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] her head and cowered at this, for she felt as if it was particularly directed to her. Miss Ophelia sat for a moment, as if she had swallowed some explosive mixture, and were ready to burst. Then, recollecting the utter uselessness of contention with such a nature, she shut her lips resolutely, gathered herself up, and walked out of the room.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)