Retrieve

Definition of Retrieve

Re`trieve´

v. t.	1.	To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. [imp. & p. p. Retrieved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Retrieving.] With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live. - Dryden
	2.	To recall; to bring back. To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits. - Berkeley.
	3.	To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge. Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall. - Prior. There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved. - Burke.
v. i.	1.	(Sport.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.
n.	1.	A seeking again; a discovery.
	2.	The recovery of game once sprung; - an old sporting term.

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