noun
- The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.
- usage: "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
- synonyms: memory
verb
- Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.
- usage: "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number"; "Do you remember that he once loved you"; "call up memories"
- Keep in mind for attention or consideration.
- usage: "Remember the Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day"; "Think of the starving children in India"
- Recapture the past; indulge in memories.
- usage: "he remembered how he used to pick flowers"
- synonyms: remember, think back
- Show appreciation to.
- usage: "He remembered her in his will"
- synonyms: remember
- Mention favorably, as in prayer.
- usage: "remember me in your prayers"
- synonyms: remember
- Mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship.
- usage: "Remember me to your wife"
- Exercise, or have the power of, memory.
- usage: "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others"
- synonyms: remember
- Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony.
- usage: "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War"
- synonyms: commemorate, remember
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