Re·trieve v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retrieved p. pr. & vb. n. Retrieving.]
1. To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
With late repentance now they would retrieve
The bodies they forsook, and wish to live. --Dryden
2. To recall; to bring back.
To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits. --Berkeley.
3. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.
Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall. --Prior.
There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved. --Burke.
Syn: -- To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.