re-call

Verb

recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)

1. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).

   Synonyms:

   withcall, abjure, backpedal, disavow, disown, eat one's words, recant, retract, revoke, swallow

2. (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
   • He was recalled to service after his retirement.
3. (US, transitive) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
   • That stop-start-stop has created a groundswell of anger toward Mr. Newsom, a Democrat in the third year of his first term, that is increasingly fueling a movement to recall him from office in one of the bluest of blue states.2021 February 19, Nellie Bowles, “Hurt by Lockdowns, California’s Small Businesses Push to Recall Governor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
4. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
   • Nevertheless, there were many passengers on the recent special trains to whom the immaculate little 80-year-old "Terrier," No. 32636, formerly Fenchurch, and its two L.B.S.C.R. coaches, recalled nostalgic memories of the old days on the line, when the trains were always spick and span; and days...1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836
6. (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
   • "The twinkling of the dancers' feet" comes to us in the Odyssey as a memory from that palace of Alkinoos, whose wonders recall to us so much that we have found in Crete.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 6

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