The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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To recall; to bring back.
To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits.
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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
vb. (present participle of retrieve English)
Usage examples of "retrieving".
I want you to concentrate on industrial defence contracts, see if you can find traces of the kind of things Mzu would require for retrieving and deploying the Alchemist.
Nor did she doubt that he wanted more black crystal from Keborgen's claim, and if she offered the Guild the best chance of retrieving the loss, he would support her.
The planet, with a mighty swallow followed by several small sips, was retrieving the stones and earth with which it had made such an impression on Intergal's principal Petaybean outpost.
He grasped at the excuse of retrieving the crumpled folds where the dress had fallen unremarked to the stone at their feet.
Silvina said, appearing on Menolly's right and absently retrieving mug and bowl from the steps.
He had told himself that that was partly because of the gruesome errand he and Piemur had been on, retrieving Sallah Telgar.
We have ways of contacting him, even of retrieving him, if you so desire.
He didn't expect any help in retrieving the warhammer once delivered to Kree.
Even Drizzt Do'Urden, that paladin in drow skin, had named himself as Entreri's enemy by preventing the assassin from retrieving Regis the halfling and the magical ruby pendant the little fool had stolen from Pasha Pook.
Deudermont had been pleased indeed when Wulfgar had arrived at the dock in Waterdeep, asking to come aboard and join the crew, asking Deudermont to help him in retrieving the mighty warhammer that Bruenor Battlehammer had crafted for him.
Perhaps the illithid-lich would have difficulty retrieving it from the murky pool below.
You start booting up memories to recollect the hormone-shifts, because when the wind stops, and nothing is moving, you start retrieving old states to run in—am I making sense?
Or to produce pleasure out of the flux itself instead of retrieving it out of the data-banks.
Tenderly retrieving his box, Harold ambled away, so very pleased to have helped a friend in need.
Ryan noted in a whisper, retrieving his Steyr from underneath a headless torso.