recollect.
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
Meaning & usage
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).
To collect (things) together again.
To compose oneself.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English collect English recollect From re- + collect.
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