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Phrase(s): retrieve someone or something from some place
to recover and bring back someone or something from some place. • The mother hurried to the school and retrieved her child from the classroom. • I retrieved my cat from the well into which she had fallen., Phrase(s): retrieve something from someone
to get something back from someone. • I hope I can retrieve my book from the person who borrowed it. • We were not able to retrieve the lawn mower from Fred before he moved away and took it with him.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs