recall
verb
rɪˈkɔːl 
rɪˈkɔːl 
1 [transitive, intransitive] (formal) (not used in the progressive tenses) to remember somethingSynonym
recollectrecall something She could not recall his name.(+ adverb/preposition) If I recall correctly, he lives in Luton.recall (somebody/something) doing something I can't recall meeting her before.recall that… He recalled that she always came home late on Wednesdays.recall what, when, etc… Can you recall exactly what happened?+ speech ‘It was on a Thursday in March,’ he recalled.2 [transitive] recall something (not used in the progressive tenses) to make somebody think of somethingSynonym
evokeThe poem recalls Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’.3 [transitive] to order somebody to returnrecall somebody Both countries recalled their ambassadors.recall somebody to something He was recalled to military duty.They have both been recalled to the Welsh squad (= selected as members of the team after a time when they were not selected).4 [transitive] recall something to ask for something to be returned, often because there is something wrong with itThe company has recalled all the faulty hairdryers.