0 present participle of recall
1 to bring the memory of a past event into your mind, and often to give a description of what you remember:
The old man recalled the city as it had been before the war.
"As I recall," he said with some irritation, "you still owe me €150."
[ + (that) ] He recalled (that) he had sent the letter over a month ago.
[ + question word ] Can you recall what happened last night?
[ + -ing verb ] She recalled seeing him outside the shop on the night of the robbery.
2 to order the return of a person who belongs to an organization or of products made by a company:
The ambassador was recalled when war broke out.
The company recalled thousands of jars of baby food after a salmonella scare.
If you cast your mind back, you might recall that I never promised to go.
She had an amazing memory and could recall verbatim quite complex conversations.
He recalled his dissipated youth spent in nightclubs and bars.
There was a slight tremble in her voice as she recalled her husband.
On the other hand their smooth, rounded external form may evoke meaning by recalling, perhaps, human crania.
Finally, it is worth recalling a slightly earlier study.
It is worth recalling that the behaviorist school of psychology also explained human and animal behavior by a backward-looking and unthinking adaptive mechanism, namely, reinforcement.
