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    • \ ˌre-kə-ˈlekt 

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    [Verb]  | "rec*ol*lect" | \ ˌre-kə-ˈlekt \


    1: to bring back to the level of conscious awareness : remember

    2: to remind (oneself) of something temporarily forgotten

    3: to call something to mind


    Origin: 1559 ;

     Medieval Latin recollectus, past participle of recolligere, from Latin, to gather again;

    [Verb]  | "re-col*lect" | \ ˌrē-kə-ˈlekt \


    1: to collect again; especially : rally, recover


    Origin: 1604 ;

     Partly from Latin recollectus, past participle of recolligere, from re- + colligere to collect; partly from re- + collect;

    [Verb]  | "recollect" 


    1: to bring back to mind;


      * e.g., " ... I can't recollect if I turned the stove off or not before leaving the house "





    [Verb]  | "re-collect" 


    1: to gain emotional or mental control of;


      * e.g., " ... she had to calm down and re-collect herself after being told she had won the lottery "



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    2: to get again in one's possession;


      * e.g., " ... I struggled to re-collect the papers the wind had torn from my hands "



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     [ "re-collect" ]

    1: When you have emergency bowel pressure and you have to pause your step, clench your butt, and hope the pressure eases so you can make it to the toilet (or at least some location where the clean-up is less conspicuous)

      * e.g.,  ... I made it home after a two hour drive and I had to stop in the garage and re-collect before I blew my o-ring and sharted. Luckily, after a pause and a cold sweat, I continued into the house and made it to the bathroom. 

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