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re-collect

re-collect is the alternative form of recollect.

Meaning of recollect

Verb (1)

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

  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.

Verb (2)

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To collect (things) together again.
  2. To compose oneself.
    • The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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Forms of re-collect

third-person singular presentre-collects
present participlere-collecting
past participlere-collected
pastre-collected

Questions about re-collect

What is re-collect the alternative form of?
Re-collect is the alternative form of recollect.

Words near re-collect in the dictionary

  1. re-cognising
  2. re-cognize
  3. re-cognized
  4. re-cognizes
  5. re-cognizing
  6. re-collect
  7. re-combine
  8. re-combined
  9. re-combines
  10. re-combining
  11. re-commission

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-collect (page history and authors); recollect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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