Usually means: Bring back or recover something.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word retrieve:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. retrieve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retrieve: Merriam-Webster
  3. retrieve, retrieve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retrieve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retrieve: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retrieve: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retrieve, retrieve: Wordnik
  8. retrieve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. retrieve: Wiktionary
  10. retrieve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. retrieve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. retrieve: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Retrieve, retrieve: Dictionary.com
  14. retrieve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. retrieve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Retrieve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Retrieve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. retrieve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. retrieve: Rhymezone
  20. retrieve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. retrieve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. retrieve: FreeDictionary.org
  23. retrieve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. retrieve: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieve: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Retrieve: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Retrieve, retrieve: CCI Computer
  3. retrieve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieve: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieve: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See retrievability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To regain or get back something.
verb:  (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
verb:  (transitive) To salvage something
verb:  (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
verb:  (transitive) To remember or recall something.
verb:  (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
verb:  (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
verb:  (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
verb:  (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
verb:  (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
noun:  A retrieval
noun:  (sports) The return of a difficult ball
noun:  (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
noun:  (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

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