remember (v.)

  1. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; I cant remember saying any such thing; I cant think what her last name was; can you remember her phone number?; Do you remember that he once loved you?; call up memories

    [ Syn: retrieve , recall , call back , call up , recollect , think ]

  2. keep in mind for attention or consideration; Remember the Alamo; Remember to call your mother every day!; Think of the starving children in India!

    [ Syn: think of ]

  3. recapture the past; indulge in memories; he remembered how he used to pick flowers

    [ Syn: think back ]

  4. show appreciation to; He remembered her in his will'

  5. mention favorably, as in prayer; remember me in your prayers'

  6. mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship; Remember me to your wife

    [ Syn: commend ]

  7. exercise, or have the power of, memory; After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember; some remember better than others'

  8. call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz; Remember the dead of the First World War

    [ Syn: commemorate ]

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