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[ US /ˈɹiˌkɔɫ, ɹɪˈkɔɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. go back to something earlier
    This harks back to a previous remark of his
  2. cause to be returned
    recall the defective auto tires
    The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
  3. cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
    She was recalled by a loud laugh
  4. make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
    The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty
  5. call to mind
    His words echoed John F. Kennedy
  6. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
    Do you remember that he once loved you?
    can you remember her phone number?
    I can't think what her last name was
    call up memories
    I can't remember saying any such thing
  7. summon to return
    The ambassador was recalled to his country
    The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession
NOUN
  1. a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
  2. a bugle call that signals troops to return
  3. a call to return
    the recall of our ambassador
  4. the act of removing an official by petition
  5. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
    he has total recall of the episode

How To Use recall In A Sentence

  • I could be wrong but as I recall in Batman Begins Batman 'growled' his lines just a few times but to very strong effect. All of The Dark Knight's Broken Records - Box Office Dominance! « FirstShowing.net
  • He recalls that, in the painful heat of the moment, he was ‘the first to miscall the parentage’ of the future Scotland manager.
  • It is critical to an understanding of deixis to recall that even very ‘local’ elements of context, such as a speaker's own corporeal experience and perceptual field, are susceptible of schematisation.
  • Other cast members recalled the incident on Twitter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
  • ‘Our wedding meal was the first kosher food we ever ate,’ recalled Sarah years later.
  • The neighbours, he recalls, allowed him to play until a daily curfew of 10 pm.
  • She emotionally recalls what it was like as a teenager running into her homeless dad on the streets and pretending she didn't know him.
  • As Hayden recalled the velvety softness of her breast against his palm, a pang of guilt stabbed him. One Night Of Scandal
  • Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
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