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Definition of recall : 1. A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
2. A calling back; a revocation.
3. Short for recall of judicial decisions, the right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
4. The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
5. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
6. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
7. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.

Synonyms:

reelect, call up, back away, pull back, reject, guess, conceive, bring forward, give back, regress, opine, yield, come back, commend, riposte, think, abjure, reckon, assemble, call, hark back, mind, fall, suspend, dismiss, bow out, lift, disown, refuse, draw off, render, rescind, revive, sequester, disclaim, remove, draw, cogitate, telephone, ring, call back, bethink, revert, repudiate, recollection, recover, anamnesis, turn back, recede, back out, continue, evoke, swallow, echo, reverberate, resound, refund, make, repeat, give, retrovert, unsay, generate, repay, seclude, disqualify, crawfish, disengage, callback, mean, regain, take out, visit, think back, imagine, pull in one's horns, deny, take away, retrieve, deliver, retort, crawfish out, discard, retreat, move back, reminiscence, call in, take back, reverse, believe, pass, pull away, consider, summon, sequestrate, suppose, accept, forswear, phone, intend, commemorate, devolve, bring back, think of, adjourn, cerebrate, mobilise, abandon, find, disavow, return, mobilize, repeal, retire, remembrance, rally, draw back, take, rejoin, discharge, law, renounce

reflect, remember, reminisce, relive, recollect

reserve, revoke, hold, withhold, retract, recant, keep, withdraw, retain, suppress

Usage examples:

• Now that I recall the list, he has not. - "Three Plays", Padraic Colum.
• I recall one of the last things I said that night to Mrs. Grose. - "The Turn of the Screw", Henry James.
• Does the name of Clark recall anything to you? - "The Breaking Point", Mary Roberts Rinehart.