Recollect Past Tense

The past tense of Recollect is recollected.

1. recollect

verb. ['ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt, ˌriːkəˈlɛkt'] recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.

Rhymes with Recollect

• teleconnect
• overprotect
• interconnect
• disrespect
• reinspect
• misdirect
• disinfect
• disconnect
• reconnect
• nondirect
• interject
• disaffect
• suspect
• subject
• resurrect
• respect
• reflect
• reelect
• redirect
• project
• neglect
• intersect
• inspect
• indirect
• incorrect
• expect
• deflect
• confect
• unchecked
• select

Sentences with recollect

1. Verb, base form
If you cannot recollect your PIN, the bank will not be able to retrieve it for you.

Quotes about recollect

1. I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.
- Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

2. This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –
- Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

3. Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven......I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.
- Harold Brodkey