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recollect

/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/ verb B2
  1. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events. · I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.

He/she/it recollects · Past recollected · Past participle recollected · -ing form recollecting

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Verb forms

Base form
recollect
He/she/it
recollects
Past
recollected
Past participle
recollected
-ing form
recollecting

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Recollect she hasn’t ever had anyone to teach her right.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 71 · C1
Matthew recollected that he must say what he had come to say without loss of time, lest Marilla return prematurely.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 72 · C1
At the threshold he recollected that he had not paid for it and he turned miserably back.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 190 · C1
“He does not exactly recollect the circumstances, though he has heard them from Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 109 · B2

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