recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
are recollecting
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present progressiveof recollect.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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It is to be added that repetition of the act of imagination will tend still further to deepen the subsequent feeling that we are recollecting something.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
I. Music and Words are Inseparable Think of any popular song-hit, and while you are recollecting just "how it goes," stand back from yourself and watch your mental processes.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
This is as true of what you are recollecting as it is of everything else you think of.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
When we are aware that we are recollecting, and are trying, perhaps hard, to recollect, it is a sign that we do not recollect utterly.
From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
