(~s, retrieving, ~d)
1.
If you ~ something, you get it back from the place where you left it.
The men were trying to ~ weapons left when the army abandoned the island.
= recover
VERB: V n
2.
If you manage to ~ a situation, you succeed in bringing it back into a more acceptable state.
He is the one man who could ~ that situation.
VERB: V n
3.
To ~ information from a computer or from your memory means to get it back.
Computers can instantly ~ millions of information bits...
VERB: V n