v.
   - get or bring back. 
▸(of a dog) find and bring back (game that has been shot).
 - put right or improve (an unwelcome situation).
 - find or extract (information stored in a computer).
 
n.
 an act of retrieving.
 
  Derivative
  
    - retrievability n.
  - retrievable adj.
  - retrieval n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. retroeve-, stressed stem of retrover ‘find again’.