From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Retrieve \Re*trieve"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Retrieved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Retrieving}.] [OE. retreven, OF. retrover to find again, recover (il retroevee finds again), F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See {Trover}.]
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
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.
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