RE-COLLECTS Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

recollects 1 of 2

verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of recollect

as in remembers

to bring back to mind I can't recollect if I turned the stove off or not before leaving the house

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re-collects

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of re-collect

as in contains

to gain emotional or mental control of she had to calm down and re-collect herself after being told she had won the lottery

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as in retrieves

to get again in one's possession I struggled to re-collect the papers the wind had torn from my hands

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But War suddenly remembers that Johnny is supposed to be a mole of some consequence.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
This was the call Hunter Armistead, Pattern’s CEO, remembers getting from his head engineer when the turbines came online for the very first time.

— Sara Herschander, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of remembers

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This floor also contains a guest bedroom and bathroom, staff quarters, laundry and a security room.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2026
This spice contains plant compounds called gingerols and shogaols, which help lower the level of inflammatory proteins in the body and block inflammation from occurring.

— Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of contains

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An agent reads a ticket, retrieves a document, queries a database, calls a tool, maybe hands off to a second agent, and only then responds.

— Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The Hero With a Tragic Backstory Below stars Josh Hartnett as Calvin Penney, a fisherman fallen on hard times who now retrieves chunks of floating Arctic ice to be used in making vodka and reluctantly AirBnBs his home to tourists.

— Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of retrieves

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Alongside church traditions, the album recalls Terry Riley’s minimalism, in which the repetition of musical patterns produces a kind of hypnotic stasis.

— Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Device for Exhaling the Tremor (2025), a large sculpture by Celeste Martinez Abburra, explicitly recalls the stainless steel and glass beakers of a chemistry laboratory.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of recalls

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The man composes his responses with the help of a manual that instructs him on which incoming string of Chinese characters should be answered with which other string of Chinese characters.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
Agent authority composes dynamically.

— Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

Definition of composes

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The powertrain also recaptures waste energy; the ThermAssist heat management system boosts range by 7 percent and reduces the amount of energy needed to heat the car by 40 percent.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
Oh, there’s a pipe dream out there, all about a once-great player who recaptures the old magic, but that’s hardly the appropriate mood.

— Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2026

Definition of recaptures

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The man rushes to the garage, grabs a crate of tools and a leaf blower and gets back inside the vehicle, which then reverses and drives off.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
An organization that helps its people prepare gets back something no policy can manufacture.

— Vikas Arora, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of gets back

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The important thing here is that His Holiness the pope recovers his health.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Defensive player of the week Junior defensive back Jaden Wright makes six tackles, intercepts a pass, recovers a fumble and also returns a punt 55 yards for a touchdown during Warren’s 49-0 North Suburban Conference win over Waukegan.

— Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

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