Recall I Recalled Rɪˈkɔːl Time Late Verb Years

• she could not recall his name.
• many years later muir recalled his days at glasgow university.
• i cannot recall a time when the country faced such serious problems.
• 'i may have; i don't recall,' she said.

recall

Verb Forms

1. to remember something
• SYNONYM recollect
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/recollect
• She could not recall his name.
• Many years later Muir recalled his days at Glasgow University.
• I cannot recall a time when the country faced such serious problems.
• 'I may have; I don't recall,' she said.
• If I recall correctly, he lives in Luton.
• I can't recall meeting her before.
• I vaguely recall seeing the film.
• I seem to recall receiving an email from a reader a while ago.
• I seem to recall him mentioning a brother once.
• He recalled that she always came home late on Wednesdays.
• He later recalled that he had met her once.
• Can you recall exactly what happened?
• I can vividly recall where and when I saw them.
• ‘It was on a Thursday in March,’ he recalled.

Extra Examples

• Becky could still recall that first meeting clearly.
• I am old enough now to wistfully recall moments of my youth.
• I couldn't quite recall the date.
• I recall reading in an interview that he loved to cook.
• I seem to recall that she said she was going away.
• I well recall walking the five miles to school every morning.
• She could easily recall the smell of the orange groves.
• She recalled how she would go for walks along the beach late at night.
2. to make somebody think of something
• SYNONYM evoke
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/evoke
• The poem recalls Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’.
3. to order somebody to return
• Both countries recalled their ambassadors.
• He was recalled to military duty.
• They have both been recalled to the Welsh squad (= selected as members of the team after a time when they were not selected).
4. to ask for something to be returned, often because there is something wrong with it
• The company has recalled all the faulty hairdryers.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent. (as a verb): from re- ‘again’ + call, suggested by Latin revocare or French rappeler ‘call back’.