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Retrieve

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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Verb group 4

Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Regain 84% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Regain 84% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 5

Access 76% connected

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Recognize 76% connected

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Refresh 76% connected

To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Review 76% connected

To view or see again; to look back on.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 8

Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fetch 76% connected

To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Derivationally related 6

Recovery 74% connected

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Recovery 74% connected

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rescuer 74% connected

One who rescues.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rescuer 74% connected

One who rescues.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Retriever 74% connected

One who retrieves.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Retriever 74% connected

One who retrieves.

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Synonym 7

Find 92% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recall 92% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recollect 92% connected

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recover 92% connected

To cover again.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Regain 92% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Remember 92% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Think 92% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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