MEANING
1. To bring a past event, fact, or experience to mind.
2. To summon someone back or call something back to an earlier place or condition.
3. A formal request or order to return a product because of a defect or other problem.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- recall an encounter
- vividly recall
On the page
She recalled the encounter differently after reading the diary.
He could recall the voice but not the words.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- recall
- Past tense
- recalled
- Past participle
- recalled
- Present participle
- recalling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- recall
- Present continuous
- am/is/are recalling
- Present perfect
- have/has recalled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been recalling
- Past
- recalled
- Past continuous
- was/were recalling
- Past perfect
- had recalled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been recalling
- Future
- will recall
- Future continuous
- will be recalling
- Future perfect
- will have recalled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been recalling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: recall; recalls; recalled; recalled; recalling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: recalls.
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