Recall

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɔːl/

Definitions

1. To remember something from the past or to officially request the return of a product or person
2. To bring a memory or detail back to one's mind ; to ask for the return of goods or individuals by official order
3. To retrieve information or events from memory ; to require the return of a product or person through formal action

Etymology: "Recall" is built from the prefix "re-" ("back, again") and "call," so it literally means to call back. The English verb is usually traced to the Latin "revocare," which also means "to call back," and to the French "rappeler," which shares the same idea. The sense of calling someone back to a place or a duty came first, and the sense of calling a memory back into the mind developed from that. The memory sense is the one that has shifted most. A thing recalled was once something summoned back physically, such as a person returned to a post or a decision reversed, before it came to mean drawing a past experience back into awareness. That mental use is what most speakers now mean by the word.

Synonyms: remember, recollect, retrieve, summon, call back

Antonyms: forget, overlook, ignore, dismiss, disregard