Find the word definition

Crossword clues for retrieved

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrieved

Retrieve \Re*trieve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retrieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Retrieving.] [OE. retreven, OF. retrover to find again, recover (il retroevee finds again), F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See Trover.]

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

    With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
    --Dryden

  2. To recall; to bring back.

    To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits.
    --Berkeley.

  3. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.

    Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
    --Prior.

    There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved.
    --Burke.

    Syn: To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.

Wiktionary
retrieved

vb. (en-past of: retrieve)

Usage examples of "retrieved".

She retrieved the image of his face a moment earlier and projected it on interior space, comparing the bleak-eyed young man of the recording with the smiling boy in the cabin.

The technician retrieved the little device, hoisting it lightly in one arm.

There was always the possibility that the mutineers had retrieved the object.

She retrieved another feather from her breast pocket and saluted Triv with it before she reactivated her forcebelt.

He dismissed the data he had retrieved and went to see who was returning.

In doing so, of course, you set up the circumstances which retrieved the lost Ger and the forgotten planet.

Grade One Med Tech Fiona Mespil was retrieved off-planet by the EEC shortly before the colony vanished.

The outside crew retrieved the sensors and nets it had deployed on nearby chunks of rock, and when they were all back inside, Hollister gave the various drive components a last check.

Inconspicuously dropping his napkin, he had a good look under the tablecloth as he retrieved the napery.

Polyon retrieved the minihedra after the recording was over and handed one faceted black polyhedron to each of them, keeping the last for himself.

The data he had retrieved was shunted directly into Nancia's conscious memory stores.

Then she reached into the pool and retrieved her arc pistol, stripping off the plastic film.

He retrieved his equipment belt and extracted the universal microtool.

The buzzer sounded on the food hatch, and he retrieved the large, steaming bowl.

There'd be too much of a stink kicked up if a drifting Talent wasn't retrieved right then.