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Definition of retrieve : 1. A seeking again; a discovery.
2. The recovery of game once sprung; - an old sporting term.
3. To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.
4. To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
5. To recall; to bring back.
6. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.

Synonyms:

notice, see, reanimate, ring, recoup, faithful, redeem, withdraw, determine, call in, consider, suppose, line up, cerebrate, cogitate, resume, think, mobilize, find, retake, commemorate, return, enrich, enhance, observe, opine, author, intend, reacquire, imagine, save, hark back, call up, think back, go back, restore, conceive, ascertain, shelter, back up, re-collect, keep (a) watch, detect, call-back, recruit, snap, protect, come back, block, reclaim, come up, guard, commend, be restored, bay, witness, cure, watch over, discover, howl, burn, slaver, study at recover, remedy, find out, optimization, burn in, rule, improve on, bump, happen, repossess, remember, browse, rally, lift, beg, recapture, archive, boost, bring back, stand up for, chance, safeguard, think of, get back, echo, recover, convalesce, defend, guess, phone, wag, shield, revitalize, bark, win back, believe, regain, get hold, mean, heal, reckon, reestablish, call, access, find oneself, bring forward, recoverable, recuperate, mobilise, encounter, improve, feel, recall, telephone, recollect, be cured _or_ healed, correct

acquire (part of speech: verb)

lure, palm, accumulate, pocket, incur, take, corner, claim, amass, garner, net, fetch, harvest, heap, score, reap, get, buy, wrangle, win, collect, acquire, secure, add, assume, annex, receive, land, purchase, catch, capture, obtain, bag, procure

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