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59 words match “RECALL”

RETRACT v.
Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion. I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it. Bp. Stillingfleet.
RETRIEVE v.
To recall; to bring back. To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits. Berkeley.
REVERSE v.
To cause to return; to recall. [Obs.] And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser.
REVIVE v.
To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke.
REVIVIFICATE v.
To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]
REVIVIFICATION n.
Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recaling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
REVOCATE v.
To recall; to call back. [Obs.]
REVOCATION n.
The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall. One that saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection. Hooker.
REVOCATORY a.
Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.
REVOKE v. 2 definitions
To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.] The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser.
SENSE n.
hak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. Keble.
SUGGESTION n.
The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.
UNLAUGH v.
To recall, as former laughter. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. More.
UNLOOK v.
To recall or retract, as a look. [R.] Richardson.
UNSAY v.
To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said. You can say and unsay things at pleasure. Goldsmith.
UNSHOUT v.
To recall what is done by shouting. [Obs.] Shak.
UNSWEAR v. 2 definitions
To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure. J. Fletcher.
UNTHINK v.
To recall or take back, as something thought. Shak.
WITHDRAW v.
To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.
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