remembering Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
    memory.
    • he can do it from memory
    • he enjoyed remembering his father
  2. verb recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
    retrieve; remember; recall; recollect; call back; think; call up.
    • 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
  3. verb keep in mind for attention or consideration
    think of; remember.
    • Remember the Alamo
    • Remember to call your mother every day!
    • Think of the starving children in India!
  4. verb recapture the past; indulge in memories
    think back; remember.
    • he remembered how he used to pick flowers
  5. verb show appreciation to
    remember.
    • He remembered her in his will
  6. verb mention favorably, as in prayer
    remember.
    • remember me in your prayers
  7. verb mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
    commend; remember.
    • Remember me to your wife
  8. verb exercise, or have the power of, memory
    remember.
    • After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember
    • some remember better than others
  9. verb call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
    commemorate; remember.
    • We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
    • Remember the dead of the First World War

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