recollect

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To bring something back to mind; to remember.

   I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I decided to go.

2. 2
   verb

   To calm and compose yourself after a shock or distraction.

   She paused for a moment to recollect herself before answering the difficult question.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).

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