transitive verb

1. to call back; ask or order to return; specif., to ask purchasers to return (an imperfect or dangerous product), often so that a manufacturing defect can be corrected
2. to bring back to mind; remember
3. to take back; cancel; annul; revoke; withdraw
4. ☆ to remove from office by the process of recall
5. to bring (the mind, attention, etc.) back, as to the immediate situation
6. Old Poet. to revive

noun

1. the act of recalling
2. the ability to remember; memory
3. Mil. a signal, as on a bugle or drum, calling soldiers back to camp or ranks
4. ☆ the process of removing, or right to remove, an official from office by popular vote, usually after using petitions to call for such a vote