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{
"term": "retrieve",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "retrieve",
"heSheIt": "retrieves"
},
"pastSimple": "retrieved",
"pastParticiple": "retrieved",
"ingForm": "retrieving"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to bring or get something back, especially from a place where it should not be",
"sensetop": "retrieve something from somebody/somethingretrieve something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She bent to retrieve her comb from the floor.",
"contextForm": "retrieve something from somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The dog retrieved the ball from the water."
},
{
"text": "The police have managed to retrieve some of the stolen money.",
"contextForm": "retrieve something"
}
],
"synonyms": "recover"
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to find and get back data or information that has been stored in the memory of a computer",
"sensetop": "retrieve something from somebody/somethingretrieve something",
"labels": "(computing)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to retrieve information from the database",
"contextForm": "retrieve something from somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The program allows you to retrieve items quickly by searching under a keyword.",
"contextForm": "retrieve something"
}
],
"topics": ["Computers"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to make a bad situation better; to get back something that was lost",
"sensetop": "retrieve something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You can only **retrieve the situation** by apologizing."
},
{
"text": "Employers are anxious to retrieve the investment they have made in training their employees."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːv/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieve__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːvz/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieves__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːvd/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieved__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːvɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieving__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːv/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieve__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːvz/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieves__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːvd/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieved__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtriːvɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/retrieve/retrieving__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘find lost game’): from Old French retroeve-, stressed stem of retrover ‘find again’."
}