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How to pronounce “retrieve”

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Pronunciation guide for retrieve

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of retrieve with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: How Your Memory Works -- and Why Forgetting Is Totally OKbut you cannot, for the life of you, retrieve it on demand.
Definition summary: (transitive) To regain or get back something.

Example 1 of 8

How Your Memory Works -- and Why Forgetting Is Totally OK

but you cannot, for the life of you, retrieve it on demand.

[Verb]
(transitive) To regain or get back something.
(transitive) To rescue (a creature).
(transitive) To salvage something
(transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
(transitive) To remember or recall something.
(transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
(transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
(intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
(intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
(sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
(obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
[Noun]
A retrieval.
(sports) The return of a difficult ball.
(obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
(obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.