recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
have recollected
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present perfectof recollect.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Lighthizer said he was at the meeting in question and would have recollected such an exchange, and disputed Bolton's account.
From Fox News ● Jun. 17, 2020
“Only too glad to have recollected about the matches.”
From Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by A. Forestier
But it is my fault; I should have recollected young heads.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Well, master, before you undertook this excursion, you ought to have recollected all that happened to us among the Tinguians and the Igorrots.”
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière
Dunne—My lord, I will tell you, when I have recollected it, if you will give me time till to-morrow morning.
From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen
