retrieve

Meanings

Verb

• To regain or get back something.
• To rescue (a creature).
• To salvage something
• To remedy or rectify something.
• To remember or recall something.
• To fetch or carry back something.
• To fetch and bring in game.
• To fetch and bring in game systematically.
• To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
• To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
• To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).

Noun

• A retrieval
• The return of a difficult ball
• A seeking again; a discovery.
• The recovery of game once sprung.

Origin

• Recorded in Middle English c.1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c.1650), from Middle French, stem of Old French (=modern) retrouver, itself from re- + trouver (probably from Vulgar Latin ("to compose")).