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REMIND

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in the mind of someone

Example:

Remind me to call Mother

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Cause:

call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)

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

take back (cause someone to remember the past)

nag (remind or urge constantly)

commemorate; immortalise; immortalize; memorialise; memorialize (be or provide a memorial to a person or an event)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They remind him to write the letter

Derivation:

reminder (an experience that causes you to remember something)

reminder (a message that helps you remember something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

Synonyms:

cue; prompt; remind

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

“You forget the boat we found on the beach,” I reminded her.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had evidently forgotten all about the dark stranger, as in his illness he had forgotten all that this episode had reminded him of.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If I were alone, would he not at times force his abhorred presence on me to remind me of my task or to contemplate its progress?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I love to be reminded of the past, Edward—whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it—and you will never offend me by talking of former times.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

No, upon no account in the world, Mr. Weston; I am much obliged to you for reminding me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When coffee was over, Colonel Fitzwilliam reminded Elizabeth of having promised to play to him; and she sat down directly to the instrument.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A feud, ages old, was between them, and she, for one, would see to it that he was reminded.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Eleanor was ready to oblige her; and Catherine reminding her as they went of another promise, their first visit in consequence was to the portrait in her bed-chamber.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The moon is a familiar sight in our sky, brightening dark nights and reminding us of space exploration, past and present.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

You'll excuse me, I dare say, but you remind me of that fable.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)