recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
were recollecting
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past progressiveof recollect.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was a strange feeling, as if he were recollecting the present from the future.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2013
Miss Kenton, I thought, became visibly happier when I talked about the house and soon we were recollecting together various old memories, frequently laughing over them.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
