retrieve

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To get back; regain.
2. v. To rescue or save.
3. v. Sports To make a difficult but successful return of (a ball or shuttlecock, as in tennis or badminton).
4. v. To bring back again; revive or restore.
5. v. To rectify the unfavorable consequences of; remedy. See Synonyms at recover.
6. v. To recall to mind; remember.
7. v. To find and carry back; fetch.
8. v. To find and bring back game: a dog trained to retrieve.
9. n. The act of retrieving; retrieval.
10. n. Sports A difficult but successful return of a ball or shuttlecock.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To find again; discover again; recover; regain.
2. Specifically, in hunting, to search for and fetch: as, a dog retrieves killed or wounded birds or other game to the sportsman.
3. To bring back to a state of well-being, prosperity, or success; restore; reëstablish: as, to retrieve one's credit.
4. To make amends for; repair; better; ameliorate.
5. To find, recover, or restore anything; specifically, in sporting, to seek and bring killed or wounded game: as, the dog retrieves well.
6. n. A seeking again; a discovery; a recovery; specifically, in hunting, the recovery of game once sprung.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To regain or get back something.
2. v. transitive To rescue (a) creature(s)
3. v. transitive To salvage something
4. v. transitive To remedy or rectify something.
5. v. transitive To remember or recall something.
6. v. transitive To fetch or carry back something.
7. v. transitive To fetch and bring in game.
8. v. intransitive To fetch and bring in game systematically.
9. v. intransitive To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
10. v. sports (transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
11. n. A retrieval
12. n. sports The return of a difficult ball
13. n. obsolete A seeking again; a discovery.
14. n. obsolete The recovery of game once sprung.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury.
2. v. To recall; to bring back.
3. v. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.
4. v. (Sport.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded.
5. n. obsolete A seeking again; a discovery.
6. n. obsolete The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. get or find back; recover the use of
2. v. go for and bring back
3. v. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
4. v. run after, pick up, and bring to the master