remember vs retrieve

remember

verb
  • To engage in the process of recalling memories. 

  • To not forget (to do something required) 

  • To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship. 

  • To memorize; to put something into memory. 

  • To keep in mind, be mindful of 

  • to commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony 

  • To convey greetings from. 

  • To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory. 

retrieve

verb
  • To remember or recall something. 

  • To regain or get back something. 

  • To fetch and bring in game. 

  • To salvage something 

  • To make a difficult but successful return of the ball. 

  • To fetch and bring in game systematically. 

  • To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record. 

  • To rescue (a creature). 

  • To remedy or rectify something. 

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

noun
  • The return of a difficult ball 

  • A retrieval 

How often have the words remember and retrieve occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )