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MEMORISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they memorise ... he / she / it memorises
Past simple: memorised
Past participle: memorised
-ing form: memorising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commit to memory; learn by heart
Example:
Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?
Synonyms:
con; learn; memorise; memorize
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "memorise" is one way to...):
hit the books; study (learn by reading books)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "memorise"):
alternate; understudy (be an understudy or alternate for a role)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
memorisation (learning so as to be able to remember verbatim)
memoriser (a person who learns by rote)
memory (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)
memory (something that is remembered)
