Remember

/ɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
2. To memorize; to put something into memory.
3. To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
4. To not forget (to do something required)
5. To convey greetings from.
6. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
7. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
8. (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.

Example Sentences

Remember me? I live in your building.

In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.

[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.

A man's vision reflects his memories. As I looked out on the nation from the President's Oval Office, my reflections included images burned deep in my mind for over a half a century. I remembered my father's concern for the tenant farmer and for the workers' need for collective bargaining. I remembered my mother's deep faith in the value of education. I remembered the pinched and hopeless look of poverty I saw on the faces of the Mexican-American children I had taught. I remembered the army of jobless and ragged men who rode grimy boxcars across our country during the Depression. These and a hundred other separate recollections of struggle and hope were all part of my heritage. They formed a portion of the background against which I developed the programs I felt America wanted and needed.

Spencer remembers the session as being 'as boring as beans'. A handful of copies of the record were pressed with the catalogue number Philles 111, and copies sent to both Sill and Finfer.

[…] take the Ginger Line overground from Canada Water to Penge West. So you'll be getting off the Tube, and taking the train. I know you're American, but can you remember that?

We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.

To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation.

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Word Forms

• remembers
• remembering
• remembered
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• remember
• rememberest
• rememberedst
• remembereth
• -
• remembre
• 'member
• re-member

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