RETRIE'VE, v.t. 1. To recover; to restore from loss or injury to a former good state; as to retrieve the credit of a nation; to retrieve one's character; to retrieve a decayed fortune.2. To repair.Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.3. To regain.With late repentance now they would retrieve the bodies they forsook, and wish to live.4. To recall; to bring back; as, to retrieve men from their cold trivial conceits.RETRIE'VE, n. A seeking again; a discovery. [Not in use.]
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