Definition of "retrieve"

retrieve

/ɹɪˈtɹiːv/

verb
third-person singular simple present retrieves, present participle retrieving, simple past and past participle retrieved
1. (transitive) To regain or get back something.
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  With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
  1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
2. (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
3. (transitive) To salvage something
4. (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
5. (transitive) To remember or recall something.
6. (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
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  to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits
  1714, Rev. Dean Berkeley, letter to Alexander Pope, May 1, 1714
7. (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
8. (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
9. (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
10. (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
11. (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
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  Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
  1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], (please specify the page)
  There is much to be done […] and much to be retrieved.
  1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]
noun
plural retrieves
1. A retrieval
2. (sports) The return of a difficult ball
3. (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
4. (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.
  Quotations
  we'll bring Wax to the retrieve
  1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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