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recollecting

recollecting is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about recollecting

What is recollecting the present participle and gerund of?
Recollecting is the present participle and gerund of recollect.

Words near recollecting in the dictionary

  1. recollectedly
  2. recollectedness
  3. recollectest
  4. recollecteth
  5. recollectible
  6. recollecting
  7. recollectingly
  8. recollection
  9. recollections
  10. recollective
  11. recollectively

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