Verb

(retriev)

To regain or get back something.

to retrieve''' one's character or independence; to '''retrieve a thrown ball

* Dryden

With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.

To rescue (a) creature(s)

To salvage something

To remedy or rectify something.

To remember or recall something.

To fetch or carry back something.

* Berkeley

to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits

To fetch and bring in game.

The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved .

To fetch and bring in game systematically.

Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving .

To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.

Most dogs love retrieving , regardless of what object is thrown.

(sports) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.

(obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).

* Prior

Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

* Burke

There is much to be done and much to be retrieved .

Verb

(acquir)

To get.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)

No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.

* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)

Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), chapter=3/19/2, title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}