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REMEMBER

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

Example:

call up memories

Synonyms:

call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remember"):

know (perceive as familiar)

recognise; recognize (perceive to be the same)

brush up; refresh; review (refresh one's memory)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sentence example:

They won't remember the story

Antonym:

forget (be unable to remember)

Derivation:

remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)

remembrance (the ability to recall past occurrences)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Keep in mind for attention or consideration

Example:

Think of the starving children in India!

Synonyms:

remember; think of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remember"):

bear in mind; mind (keep in mind)

retain (keep in one's mind)

keep note (maintain in the forefront of one's awareness)

characterise; characterize; qualify (describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They remember to move

Antonym:

forget (dismiss from the mind; stop remembering)

Derivation:

remembrance (the ability to recall past occurrences)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Recapture the past; indulge in memories

Example:

he remembered how he used to pick flowers

Synonyms:

remember; think back

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remember"):

reminisce (recall the past)

look back; retrospect; review (look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)

remembrance (the ability to recall past occurrences)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony

Example:

Remember the dead of the First World War

Synonyms:

commemorate; remember

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

remembrance (the ability to recall past occurrences)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Exercise, or have the power of, memory

Example:

some remember better than others

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "remember" is one way to...):

associate; colligate; connect; link; link up; relate; tie in (make a logical or causal connection)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)

remembrance (the ability to recall past occurrences)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship

Example:

Remember me to your wife

Synonyms:

commend; remember

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "remember" is one way to...):

advert; bring up; cite; mention; name; refer (make reference to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 7

Meaning:

Mention favorably, as in prayer

Example:

remember me in your prayers

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "remember" is one way to...):

advert; bring up; cite; mention; name; refer (make reference to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

remembrance (a recognition of meritorious service)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Show appreciation to

Example:

He remembered her in his will

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "remember" is one way to...):

bequeath; leave; will (leave or give by will after one's death)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

remembrance (a recognition of meritorious service)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Yes, Jo, your little friend is very welcome, and I hope Meg will remember that children should be children as long as they can.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In other words, remembering more specific positive events reduced their vulnerability to depression over the course of one year.

(Recalling happy memories during adolescence can reduce risk of depression, University of Cambridge)

It gradually destroys their ability to think and remember.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

When locus coeruleus cells were activated, the mice remembered where the food was buried 24 hours later.

(How novelty boosts memory retention, NIH)

A question about whether an individual has or had trouble remembering things.

(Have Trouble Remembering Things, NCI Thesaurus)

Once it does, the immune system "remembers" the germ and can fight it again.

(Immunization, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

She remembered with what feelings she had prepared for a knowledge of Northanger.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine, my joints more supple.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have no conception whom you can mean, Shepherd; I remember no gentleman resident at Monkford since the time of old Governor Trent.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I had always my eye open for seafaring men, with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled me.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)