recall

Definition

  • verb: to remember (something) from the past
  • verb: to call back
  • synonyms: cancel, revoke, withdraw

Examples

  • The government 'recalled' the soldiers to active duty. = The soldiers were 'recalled' to active duty.

  • He has 'total recall'. [=the ability to remember all the details of things exactly as they happened]

  • Her youth was (gone) 'beyond recall'. [=her youth was gone and could not be brought back]

Movie quotes

  • (..) that she's run off with this lawyer. So, I packed my car, and I headed to... - ... Tijuana. You've told this story, Kowalski. As Houston recalls, she, uh, took off in your seventy-four GTO. Engineering requests fuel status on the jetpack prototype. Five hours off the reservation and (..)
    2013 Gravity