Remember
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
remember
v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "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"
[syn: {remember}, {retrieve}, {recall}, {call back}, {call
up}, {recollect}, {think}] [ant: {blank out}, {block},
{draw a blank}, {forget}]
2: keep in mind for attention or consideration; "Remember the
Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day!"; "Think of
the starving children in India!" [syn: {remember}, {think
of}] [ant: {bury}, {forget}]
3: recapture the past; indulge in memories; "he remembered how
he used to pick flowers" [syn: {remember}, {think back}]
4: show appreciation to; "He remembered her in his will"
5: mention favorably, as in prayer; "remember me in your
prayers"
6: mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship;
"Remember me to your wife" [syn: {commend}, {remember}]
7: exercise, or have the power of, memory; "After the shelling,
many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember
better than others"
8: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or
something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the
dead of the First World War" [syn: {commemorate}, {remember}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Remember \Re*mem"ber\ (r?-m?m"b?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Remembered} (-b?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remembering}.] [OF.
remebrer, L. rememorari; pref. re- re- + memorare to bring to
remembrance, from memor mindful. See {Memory}, and cf.
{Rememorate}.]
1. To have (a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as
previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed
apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of
again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers
the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates.
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We are said to remember anything, when the idea of
it arises in the mind with the consciousness that we
have had this idea before. --I. Watts.
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2. To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind;
to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve
fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with
gratitude, affection, respect, or any other emotion.
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Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. --Ex. xx.
8.
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That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,
And something over to remember me by. --Shak.
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Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. --Milton.
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3. To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and
impersonally. [Obs.] "Remembering them the trith of what
they themselves known." --Milton.
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My friends remembered me of home. --Chapman.
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Remember you of passed heaviness. --Chaucer.
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And well thou wost [knowest] if it remember thee.
--Chaucer.
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4. To mention. [Obs.] "As in many cases hereafter to be
remembered." --Ayliffe.
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5. To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly
messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered
to you, etc.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "remember":
bear in mind, bring back, bring to mind, bring to recollection,
call back, call to mind, call up, carry back, cite, commemorate,
conjure up, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, give a hint,
give the cue, go back, go back over, hark back,
hold the promptbook, jog the memory, keep in mind, look back,
memorialize, mind, muse on, nag, nudge, prompt, prompt the mind,
put in mind, put in remembrance, recall, recall to mind, recapture,
recognize, recollect, reevoke, reflect, remind, remind one of,
reminisce, retain, retrace, retrospect, review,
review in retrospect, revive, revoke, reward, see in retrospect,
suggest, summon up, think back, think of, tip, treasure,
use hindsight
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