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Thesaurus: recall

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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  1. v. t. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
  2. v. t. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
  3. v. t. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
  4. n. A calling back; a revocation.
  5. n. A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
  6. n. a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
  7. n. a call to return
  8. n. a bugle call that signals troops to return
  9. n. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
  10. n. the act of removing an official by petition
  11. v. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
  12. v. go back to something earlier