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English

Etymology

Recorded in Middle English c.1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c.1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French (=modern) retrouver (“to find again”), itself from re- (“again”) + trouver (“to find”) (probably from Vulgar Latin *tropare (“to compose”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t?iv/, /???t?iv/, /?i?t?iv/
• Rhymes: -i?v

Verb

retrieve (third-person singular simple present retrieves, present participle retrieving, simple past and past participle retrieved)

1. (transitive) To regain or get back something.

   • With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.

2. (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
3. (transitive) To salvage something
4. (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
5. (transitive) To remember or recall something.
6. (transitive, especially computing) To fetch or carry back something.
   • 1714, Rev. Dean Berkeley, letter to Alexander Pope, May 1, 1714

     to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits

7. (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.

8. (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.

9. (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.

10. (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
11. (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
    • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

      Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

    • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

      There is much to be done […] and much to be retrieved.

Derived terms

• retriever

Related terms

• retrieval

Translations

Noun

retrieve (plural retrieves)

1. A retrieval
2. (sports) The return of a difficult ball
3. (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
4. (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

   • we'll bring Wax to the retrieve

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