Definitions for remember

Definitions for (verb) remember

Main entry: think, call back, call up, recall, retrieve, recollect, remember

Definition: 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


Main entry: think of, remember

Definition: 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!


Main entry: remember, think back

Definition: recapture the past; indulge in memories

Usage: he remembered how he used to pick flowers


Main entry: commemorate, remember

Definition: 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


Main entry: remember

Definition: exercise, or have the power of, memory

Usage: After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember; some remember better than others


Main entry: commend, remember

Definition: mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship

Usage: Remember me to your wife


Main entry: remember

Definition: mention favorably, as in prayer

Usage: remember me in your prayers


Main entry: remember

Definition: show appreciation to

Usage: He remembered her in his will


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