recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
am recollecting
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present progressiveof recollect (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Yes, I am a man; but a man's but a man, you know: I am recollecting myself, how these things can be.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
While I am recollecting, many, I question not, are experiencing the same tragical vicissitude.
From Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales by W. B. Cramp
