retrieve
verb/rɪˈtriːv/
/rɪˈtriːv/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they retrieve | /rɪˈtriːv/ /rɪˈtriːv/ |
| he / she / it retrieves | /rɪˈtriːvz/ /rɪˈtriːvz/ |
| past simple retrieved | /rɪˈtriːvd/ /rɪˈtriːvd/ |
| past participle retrieved | /rɪˈtriːvd/ /rɪˈtriːvd/ |
| -ing form retrieving | /rɪˈtriːvɪŋ/ /rɪˈtriːvɪŋ/ |
- (formal) to bring or get something back, especially from a place where it should not be synonym recover
- retrieve something from somebody/something She bent to retrieve her comb from the floor.
- The dog retrieved the ball from the water.
- retrieve something The police have managed to retrieve some of the stolen money.
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- (computing) to find and get back data or information that has been stored in the memory of a computer
- retrieve something from somebody/something to retrieve information from the database
- retrieve something The program allows you to retrieve items quickly by searching under a keyword.
- retrieve something to make a bad situation better; to get back something that was lost
- You can only retrieve the situation by apologizing.
- Employers are anxious to retrieve the investment they have made in training their employees.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘find lost game’): from Old French retroeve-, stressed stem of retrover ‘find again’.
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