1 retrieve sth (from sb/sth) to get sth back from the place where it was left or lost （在原处）取回，寻回（遗留或遗失的东西）: Police divers retrieved the body from the canal. 警方潜水员从运河中找回尸体。

2 (computing计算机技术) to find information that has been stored 检索信息: The computer can retrieve all the data about a particular customer. 计算机能将某一顾客的有关资料都找出来。

3 to make a bad situation or a mistake better; to put sth right 纠正（错误）；扭转（局面）；补救: The team was losing two-nil at half-time but they managed to retrieve the situation in the second half. 该队上半场以二比零落后，但下半场终于扭转局面。 ➔retrieval /-vl ||; -vḷ/ noun [U]