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Remembering   /rɪmˈɛmbərɪŋ/  /rimˈɛmbərɪŋ/  /rɪmˈɛmbrɪŋ/  /rimˈɛmbrɪŋ/   Listen
Remembering

noun
1.
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.  Synonym: memory.  "He enjoyed remembering his father"


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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"Remembering" Quotes from Famous Books



... the call of duty and to have played the man, will make a closer bond than having been born of the same mother. At a New York theatre last October I met some French officers who had fought on the right of the Canadian Corps frontage at the Somme. We got to talking, commenced remembering, missed the entire performance and parted as old friends. In France I stayed with an American-Irish Division. They were for the most part American citizens in the second generation: few of them had been ...
— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson
... will have the satisfaction of feeling that those who come out this evening love the prayer-meeting enough to brave even such a storm as this, and of remembering that there are many others who would brave ...
— Three People • Pansy
... slammed, and I saw a frown on my uncle's face as, perhaps attracted by the sound of voices, he glanced into the room on passing. Still, it was some time afterward before I learned that he had heard the last words; and, remembering them eventually when recalled by events, Minnie's careless speech proved an unfortunate ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... day, what it was to be alone on an island for weeks, surrounded by noisy heathen, and the comfort and strength gained then by the thought that we who have the full privileges of Christian worship and communion were remembering ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... engaged the attention of her two other guests, a Mrs. Ballard and her daughter. These ladies were rich, the younger had pretensions both to beauty and fashion; but their present was, alas! stained by Noncomformity, their past contaminated by association with retail trade. At the entrance of the vicar, remembering these sad defects, George Lovegrove rose to the occasion. Gently, but firmly, he pranced round them heading them towards ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet


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