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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
Usage examples:
- Heaven help the man who fires and falls back- and if he can retrieve a bit of temporary solace from that poor substitute"- he jerked a forefinger toward the bottle-" then I say for Heaven's sake let him poison himself comfortably and welcome." - "The Tempering", Charles Neville Buck.
- On some services, you can retrieve the help texts in electronic form. - "The Online World", Odd de Presno.
- They make more mistakes and retrieve them better. - "A Poor Man's House", Stephen Sydney Reynolds.