Both recall and recollect can mean 'remember'. Both can use: recall / recollect + that / question word, recall / recollect + -ing. However, recall can also mean 'remember and communicate the memory'. I don't recall what I did with my keys.

How do you use recollect?

Examples of recollect in a Sentence

Verb (1) I've been trying to recollect what happened. I don't recollect telling him anything, but maybe I did. She couldn't recollect who had mentioned his name in the first place. From what I recollect, they said four of them were coming.

What is difference between recollect and recall?

As verbs the difference between recall and recollect

is that recall is to withdraw, retract (one's words etc); to revoke (an order) while recollect is to recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events or recollect can be (obsolete) to collect (things) together again.