Crossword-Solution: RECOLLECT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recollect | v. t. | To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. |
| Recollect | v. t. | Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle. |
| Recollect | n. | A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “RECOLLECT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| call back to mind, remember | 1 answer |
| Think of afterwards. | 1 answer |
| MIND, call to | 1 answer |
| Summon to mind. | 2 answers |
| Think back to | 3 answers |
| Bring to mind again | 4 answers |
| BETHINK | 4 answers |
| THINK back | 6 answers |
| HARK back to | 6 answers |
| reminisce | 8 answers |
| look back | 12 answers |
| CALL up memory | 17 answers |
| BEAR in mind | 18 answers |
| BRING to mind | 19 answers |
| hark back | 24 answers |
| remember | 25 answers |
| CALL back | 39 answers |
| Evoke | 48 answers |
| Cite | 54 answers |
| call upon | 54 answers |
| CALL to mind | 54 answers |
| Call up | 61 answers |
| Recall | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RECOLLECT (5)
And Frank, when will it be?” “What?” “That you promised.” “I don’t quite recollect.” “Oh you do! Don’t speak like that.
Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I recollect aright, a bunch of intermingled thunderbolts and barbed arrows in each claw.
But it’s so dim, now.” “Well, try to recollect—can’t you?” “Somehow it seems to me that the wind—the wind blowed the—the—” “Try harder, Tom! The wind did blow something.
The youngest reader of romances and romantic ballads, must recollect how often the females, during the dark ages, as they are called, were initiated into the mysteries of surgery, and how frequently the gallant knight submitted the wounds of his person to her cure, whose eyes had yet more deeply penetrated his heart.
And then he lay for a long time looking up at the stars and trying to recollect where he was, what accounted for the gently rocking motion of the thing upon which he lay, and why the position of the stars changed so rapidly and miraculously.
Quotes with RECOLLECT (3)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —
This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —
I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–2025).