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Remember   /rɪmˈɛmbər/  /rimˈɛmbər/   Listen
Remember

verb
(past & past part. remembered; pres. part. remembering)
1.
Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.  Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think.  "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"  Antonym: forget.
2.
Keep in mind for attention or consideration.  Synonym: think of.  "Remember to call your mother every day!" , "Think of the starving children in India!"  Antonym: forget.
3.
Recapture the past; indulge in memories.  Synonym: think back.
4.
Show appreciation to.
5.
Mention favorably, as in prayer.
6.
Mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship.  Synonym: commend.
7.
Exercise, or have the power of, memory.  "Some remember better than others"
8.
Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony.  Synonym: commemorate.  "Remember the dead of the First World War"



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"Remember" Quotes from Famous Books



... I remember!" he exclaimed. "I'm in the cave. Oh, dear me! but it's coming on night. The yellow bird must have forgotten to wake me up. I wonder what ...
— Uncle Wiggily's Travels • Howard R. Garis

... ought to say a prayer to the Muse; but I can't remember what it is. No matter. Multiplication Table comes next. Mother says it's just the same thing in India ...
— Dotty Dimple At Home • Sophie May

... that he had become lost the night before in Defoe's ghost stories until it was too late to make his appearance in the company. He must, I should think, have been contemplating some phantasmal production at that time, for I remember his asking me many questions about the ghost-beliefs of the negroes, among whom I ...
— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.

... fate in fine-cut, and perdition in the soothing plug! In short, Virginia not having got the best of it in political quiddities, this pen-patriot is for trying the other kind. The short-sightedness of this policy will be evident, when we remember how many Republicans consider the weed to be the abomination of desolation. Virginia might poison chewing-tobacco till the crack of doom, but what effect would that have upon the eschewing (not chewing) ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 33, November 12, 1870 • Various

... by Mr. Brooke, and had their (forfeited) lives saved, their families restored to them, and themselves finally reinstated in the offices they had previously held—these men were very naturally and faithfully attached. Our young gentlemen found their Malayan names difficult to remember, so that the gallant old Patingi Ali was seldom called any other name than that of "Three-Fingered Jack," from his having lost part of his right hand; the Tumangong was spoken of as the "Father of Hopeful," from one of his children, a fine little fellow, ...
— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel


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