re-collect
Americanverb (used with object)
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to collect, gather, or assemble again (something scattered).
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to rally (one's faculties, powers, spirits, etc.); recover or compose (oneself ).
Etymology
Origin of re-collect
First recorded in 1605–15
Example Sentences
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And why didn’t the refs call a foul when Bryce Brown grabbed Jerome’s jersey as Jerome was trying to re-collect the ball just before he double-dribbled?
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2019
The earth was torn up everywhere—a few lucky hits had sufficed to re-collect a good many diggers there, and they were working vigorously.
From A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Clacy, Ellen
We try in vain to re-collect; but the secrets of the grave are not more inviolable, - for the beginnings, like the endings, of life are lost in darkness.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)
But how shall I describe her arts To re-collect the scatter'd parts?
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst
No, my Lord, I take the shortest way In writing what my thoughts can re-collect.
From The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Thorp, Willard
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