| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | rec·ol·lect |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r k  -lkt |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: rec·ol·lect·ed, rec·ol·lect·ing, rec·ol·lects
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To recall to mind. See synonyms at remember. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To remember something; have a recollection. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Medieval Latin recolligere, recoll ct-, from Latin, to gather up : re-, re- + colligere, to collect; see collect1. | | OTHER FORMS: | recol·lective —ADJECTIVE
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