recollect

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

rec·ol·lect [recollect recollects recollected recollecting] BrE [ˌrekəˈlekt] NAmE [ˌrekəˈlekt] verb transitive, intransitive
(not used in the progressive tenses) (rather formal)to remember sth, especially by making an effort to remember it
Syn: ↑recall
•~ (sth) She could no longer recollect the details of the letter.
•As far as I can recollect, she wasn't there on that occasion.
•~ what, how, etc… I don't recollect what he said.
•~ that… I recollect that we were all gathered in the kitchen.
•~ (sb/sth) doing sth I recollect him/his saying that it was dangerous.
•+ speech ‘It was just before the war,’ she recollected.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘gather’): from Latin recollect- ‘gathered back’, from the verb recolligere, from re- ‘back’ + colligere ‘collect’.

Example Bank:
•I don't recollect what he said.
•I recollect him saying that it was dangerous.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, think
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  forget, block, blank out, draw a blank