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recollect
verb as in remember
Example Sentences
By the end, I could probably recollect every blade of grass.
Without it, we couldn’t form and recollect distinct and meaningful memories since many aspects of any two memories would otherwise overlap.
Once these memories are formed, a partial prompt can easily have you recollect them.
Within it, she recollected her early years, spinning the dispersed wool of her babyhood into the tangled threads of her childhood.
However, in some cases, memory can become pathologically persistent, as when the memory of a traumatic experience—like an assault or a soldier’s time in combat—is recollected incessantly.
I stooped down and asked him how he felt himself, but he made no answer, and evidently did not recollect me.
They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.
He does not recollect the duty the engine performed with the cylindrical boilers.
We recollect sharing in the despondency, and even despair, which paralysed our party.
Hartledon sent his thoughts back, endeavouring to recollect what could have given rise to this charge.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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