retrieve

Other forms of retrieve

past tense

retrieved·

present participle

retrieving·

third person

retrieves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about retrieve

What does retrieve mean?

retrieve means "get or find back; recover the use of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retrieve?

retrieve has 2 syllables: re-trieve. The stress falls on "trieve". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈtɹiv/.

What is another word for retrieve?

Close synonyms include recover, find, regain, remember, recall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retrieve a common word?

retrieve is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.