Meaning

Alternative form of memory hole..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alternative form of memory hole.
2. (transitive) To cause something or someone to be forgotten.

Example Sentences

[…] since the stage was a classic and had been around a long time, most people still called it by its original and now memory-holed name.

His response, supported by Vasilevsky and Khrushchev, presented a highly embellished account that mollified the Vozhd and was memory-holed by a subsequent field performance solid enough to bring Rotmistrov assignment as deputy commander of Red Army armored and mechanized forces in November 1944.

It's possible that the New York Times memory-holed the Pastor Giglio paragraph on its own, without any pressure from the Obama White House. That seems unlikely since it was done in violation of the Times' own policy.

But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump.

The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance. It is memory-holing the entire “do not retaliate” episode and moving on as if the point this whole time was to get along better with Beijing.

Word Forms

• memory-holes
• memory-holing
• memory-holed

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