Retrieving is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETRIEVING in dictionary:

VERB:
• get or bring (something) back from somewhere
• (of a dog) find and bring back (game that has been shot)
• reel or bring in a fishing line
• find or extract (information stored in a computer)
• recall (something)
• put right or improve (an unwelcome situation)
NOUN:
• the act of retrieving
• an act of retrieving something, especially game that has been shot
• an act of reeling or drawing in a fishing line
• the possibility of recovery
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to get back

Words related to RETRIEVING

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How to use RETRIEVING in a sentence

• Messer Luigi was not a rich man, but in fairly comfortable circumstances, and slowly retrieving the shattered fortunes of his ancestors.
• Meanwhile the friends of Piso were urging to take some bold and sudden step, which, if it did not succeed in retrieving his fortunes, would at least shed lustre on his death.
• From the first, sportsmen recognised the extreme value of the new retrieving dog.
• Lessons in retrieving ought to be a part of his daily routine.
• Ferdinand Fitzroy was ambitious, and desirous of retrieving his character.
• One of them was to be broken and humbled beyond all retrieving.
• Philip, in the meantime, who had much energy and popularity of character, was rapidly retrieving his losses, and troops were flocking to his camp from all parts of Spain.
• He commenced trading again buoyant with the hope of retrieving his losses, and for a short time he carried on a profitable business.
• And, after a little, Clayton took the bag from him and used him only for retrieving balls.
• In the age of the Reformation, she admits, she suffered some losses, but she claims that she is fast retrieving these, while Protestantism is decadent and decaying.
• Jameson the state of affairs in Johannesburg and to induce him to return while there was yet a chance of retrieving the position.
• But what was the good of hunting up luggage in a nightmare? Dream luggage was not worth retrieving.
• Retrieving the crumpled and rejected card from its resting-place, he examined it with interest.
• He would spend his life in retrieving, in compensating to Celia for the foolish years that he had spent dreaming dreams.
• Instead of contriving plans for retrieving his crown, he held conferences with the Jesuits on topics of religion.
• For her sake he had longed for more wealth, and speculated in the hope of gaining it, and tampered with the securities intrusted to him in the hope of retrieving losses.
• I have generally observed that there is no difficulty in retrieving dead quail, but that, wounded, they are constantly lost.
• In both cases the ventures were unprofitable, and the desire of retrieving his losses was one of the causes that led to this constant literary production.
• Now as concerns the retrieving a battle, the first thing to be arrived at above all is a favourable decision and not magnitude of success.
• The Prince had arrived before us, as his motor is retrieving its reputation, and we all lunched together, making plans for the afternoon.
• For the mean and the poor there was no means of retrieving their poverty and degradation.
• The nearest station to the scene of this disaster was Junction City, and thither he tramped, in the hope of retrieving his fortunes.
• He lives in the hope of retrieving his fallen fortunes.

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