All 10 Uses
recollect
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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- And he shook his head and recollected having been inside this house, with its exposed roof rafters in the upstairs rooms and Susan Marie's oversized furniture downstairs—he'd attended, last October, an autumn church social there—but he knew he would not go inside this time.†
Chpt 6recollected = remembered
- She hadn't seen him since the day the Japs left—more than three years before, in '42—but she recollected him clearly enough.†
Chpt 10
- One night a lieutenant named Jim Kent recollected how the former radioman had taken an interest in a dead Japanese boy with his pants turned inside out around his muddy ankles.†
Chpt 16
- He could not recollect his reason for being there—why he had enlisted to fight in the marines, what the point of it was.†
Chpt 16 *recollect = remember
- Sergeant Maples recollected for the court his astonishment in early 1943 when the 442nd—composed of Nisei boys—began training at Camp Shelby.†
Chpt 19recollected = remembered
- They didn't fare well last night, recollect, and with the power out things will be worse.†
Chpt 22recollect = remember
- He recollected that on a good day in winter, when the maple trees stood bare, he could look through his dormer window out beyond the trees and see the green salt water to the southwest.†
Chpt 24recollected = remembered
- Do you recollect, Mrs. Miyamoto?†
Chpt 25recollect = remember
- Can you recollect for the benefit of the court?†
Chpt 26
- Ishmael recollected his father at work here, his neatly arranged manila folders spread out before him, his yellow legal pad laid off to his right, an array of heavily scrawled index cards, onionskin typing paper in both goldenrod and white, a thick dictionary on a stand, a thicker thesaurus, and a heavy black Underwood typewriter, the desk lamp pulled down low over the keys and his father blinking through his bifocals, slow and expressionless, absorbed in his words, afloat in that pool of soft light.†
Chpt 31recollected = remembered
Definitions:
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(1)
(recollect) to remember -- especially experiences from long agoSynonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) (historical usage) a thought or to collect thoughts -- often after an interruption -- often gaining composure, awareness, or a perspective