Definitions for retrieve

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retrieve re·trieve

Spelling: [ri-treev]

IPA: /rɪˈtriv/

Retrieve is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in retrieve (eeeirrtv).

Definitions for retrieve

noun

1. an act of retrieving; recovery.
2. the possibility of recovery.

verb (used with object)

1. to recover or regain:
2. to bring back to a former and better state; restore:
3. to make amends for:
4. to make good; repair:
5. Hunting. (of hunting dogs) to fetch (killed or wounded game).
6. to draw back or reel in (a fishing line).
7. to rescue; save.
8. (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) to make an in-bounds return of (a shot requiring running with the hand extended).
9. Computers. to locate and read (data) from storage, as for display on a monitor.

verb (used without object)

1. Hunting. to retrieve game.
2. to retrieve a fishing line.

Origin of retrieve

1375-1425; late Middle English retreven Middle French retroev-, retreuv-, tonic stem of retrouver to find again, equivalent to re- re- + trouver to find; see Examples for retrieve

And with that slender capital he intended that night to retrieve his lost fortune.

Rising to retrieve it, I offer her what meager reassurance I can muster.

His hat floated off and he grudged the slight effort to retrieve it.

He put it down his shirt and asked her to retrieve it, saying she was “all talk” and “no play” when she refused.

The cop reholsters his gun, and it seems to have ended with no further bloodshed as he moves to retrieve the knife.

He was in want of a youth whom he could trust, and who would help him to retrieve his affairs.

Even then it was not too late for Baseek to retrieve the situation.

When gunshots burst out, she ran to retrieve her child from school and returned to her house just as a bomb hit next door.

Go back to them now and retrieve what you have lost, and see that in the future you are worthier.

After weeks of training, the first mission set out to retrieve Kent Brantly, an American doctor.