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recall - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | recall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remembrance |
| Synonyms: | memory, recollection, reminiscence, anamnesis |
| Antonyms: | forgetfulness |
| Main Entry: | recall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remember |
| Synonyms: | arouse, awaken, bethink, call to mind, cite, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, flash, mind, recollect, reestablish, reinstate, reintroduce, remind, reminisce, renew, retain, retrospect, revive, rouse, stir, summon, think back, bring to mind, call up, come to one, flash on, look back, nail it down, ring a bell, strike a note, think of, waken |
| Antonyms: | forget |
| Main Entry: | recall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request for return |
| Synonyms: | annulment, cancellation, repeal, retraction, revocation, withdrawal, nullification, recision, rescindment, rescission |
| Antonyms: | restoration |
| Main Entry: | recall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask for return of offending thing |
| Synonyms: | abjure, annul, call back, cancel, countermand, discharge, dismantle, dismiss, disqualify, forswear, lift, nullify, recant, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, suspend, take back, withdraw, call in, palinode, unsay |
| Antonyms: | restore |
| Main Entry: | annul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | void an agreement |
| Synonyms: | abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, call off, cancel, countermand, declare, delete, discharge, dissolve, efface, erase, expunge, invalidate, kill, negate, neutralize, nix, nullify, obliterate, quash, recall, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub*, undo, vacate, vitiate, wipe out*, blot out, get off the hook, render null and void |
| Antonyms: | keep, restore, retain, validate, revalidate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | annulment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | voiding an agreement |
| Synonyms: | abatement, abolition, abrogation, breakup, cancellation, discharge, dissolution, negation, recall, repeal, retraction, reversal, revocation, split*, split up*, undoing*, annihilation, countermanding, dedomiciling, deletion, erasing, going phfft, invalidation, neutralization, nullification, obliteration, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, vitiation, voiding |
| Antonyms: | enactment, restoration, retention, validation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cancellation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calling off; erasure |
| Synonyms: | abolition, abrogation, annulment, dissolution, elimination, recall, repeal, repudiation, retraction, reversal, revocation, undoing, abandoning, abandonment, abolishing, canceling, deletion, dissolving, invalidating, invalidation, nullification, overruling, quashing, recalling, retirement, retracting, reversing, revoking, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, arrangement, establishment, permission |
| Main Entry: | conjure up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring to mind |
| Synonyms: | call, contrive, create, evoke, materialize, recall, recollect, remember, review, summon, urge, produce as by magic |
| Antonyms: | forget, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | countermand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | annul, cancel a command |
| Synonyms: | override, recall, repeal, rescind, retract, retreat, reverse, revoke |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, permit, sanction |
| Main Entry: | déjà vu |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | already seen or experienced |
| Synonyms: | familiarity, recall, recognition, remembrance, past-life experience |
| Main Entry: | echo |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat, copy |
| Synonyms: | ape, ditto*, imitate, impersonate, mimic, mirror, parallel, parrot, react, recall, redouble, reflect, reiterate, reproduce, resemble, resound, respond, reverberate, ring, second, vibrate, do like, go like, make like, rubber-stamp |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evoke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | induce, stimulate |
| Synonyms: | arouse, awaken, call, conjure, educe, elicit, evince, evolve, excite, extort, extract, invoke, milk*, provoke, raise, rally, recall, rouse, summon, call forth, give rise to, stir up, waken |
| Notes: | invoke is to call upon or appeal to something or someone for help or inspiration, while evoke is to bring or call something to the conscious mind; evoke is from Latin evocare 'to call out' while invoke is from invocare 'to call on' provoke means to stir up or arouse - or to incite to anger or resentment; evoke means to call forth or call to mind emotions, feelings, and responses |
| Antonyms: | halt, quell, repress, silence, stifle, stop, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flashback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remembrance |
| Synonyms: | hallucination, memory, nostalgia, recall, recollection, reminiscence, flash from the past, reliving, thoughts of the past, voice from the past |
| Main Entry: | forswear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, disavow |
| Synonyms: | abjure, deny, disclaim, disown, drop, forgo, forsake, recall, recant, reject, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, take back, withdraw, give up, swear off |
| Antonyms: | revert, go back to |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest; indicate |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, adumbrate, advise, allude to, angle, apprise, bring up, broach, coax, connote, cue, drop, expose, fish*, foreshadow, give an inkling, impart, imply, infer, inform, insinuate, intimate, jog memory, leak*, let it be known, let out of bag, make*, mention, point, prefigure, press, prompt, put flea in ear, recall, refer to, remind, say in passing, shadow, signify, solicit, spring, tip off, tip one's hand, touch on*, whisper, wink* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | memorize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remember |
| Synonyms: | cram, know, know by heart, learn, learn by heart, master, nail down, recall, recollect, remind, retain, store, commit to memory, fix in the mind, keep forever |
| Main Entry: | override/overrule |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cancel, reverse a decision |
| Synonyms: | alter, annul, bend to one's will, control, countermand, direct, disallow, disregard, dominate, govern, ignore, influence, invalidate, make null and void, make void, not heed, nullify, outvote, outweigh, overturn, prevail over, quash, recall, repeal, rescind, revoke, ride roughshod, rule against, set aside, supersede, sway, take no account of, thwart, trample, upset, vanquish, veto |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, permit, support |
| Main Entry: | quote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat something spoken, written by another |
| Synonyms: | adduce, attest, cite, detail, excerpt, extract, instance, name, paraphrase, parrot, proclaim, recall, recite, recollect, reference, refer to, retell |
| Main Entry: | recant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take back something said |
| Synonyms: | abjure, abnegate, abrogate, annul, apostatize, back down, back off, back out, backtrack, call back, cancel, contradict, countermand, deny, dial back, disavow, disclaim, disown, eat one's words, forswear, go back on one's word, nullify, recall, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, rescind, retract, revoke, take back, unsay, void, weasel out, welsh*, withdraw, worm out of |
| Antonyms: | confirm, emphasize, recapitulate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recollect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remember |
| Synonyms: | arouse, awaken, bethink, call to mind, cite, flash, mind, place, recall, recognize, remind, reminisce, retain, retrospect, revive, rouse, stir, summon, bring to mind, come to one, flash on, look back on, waken |
| Antonyms: | forget |
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