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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



... back she rose to meet him, making a picture worth remembering as she stood in her graceful youth and picturesque habit by the broken fountain, with the sombre cedar hedge behind and the intense azure ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various
... those wonderful eyes, an expression of implacable hatred in them! Remembering all that we had done for her; remembering our former friendship; above all, remembering you—this look of hers almost made me shiver. She was dressed very smartly in European fashion, and the whole thing had been so sudden that as I ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... Mike smiled. The sound was louder now, but it still did not catch his attention. He was remembering that encounter in the polar forests of Mars; the day he found little Nicko crouching under a bush; how he'd come within an ace of putting a bullet into the hideous creature's brain. But some vagrant touch of compassion had stayed him. The little monster ...
— Before Egypt • E. K. Jarvis
... together. They were all stout and fearless young fellows, trained and accustomed to danger by the hazard of their daily toil. They knew something of discipline, were used to obeying orders, and to reading and remembering regulations made for their guidance; and Jewett reasoned that they would become, in time, a crack company, and ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman
... catch, a circumstance that cost him many a conjecture in the interim. This gave him a clue to the persons into whose power he was about to fall, after having so far defeated their scheme, and he saw he should have to deal with very desperate and lawless parties. Remembering, moreover, the herculean frame of the inamorato, he calculated on an awful thrashing as the smallest penalty he should have to pay for deceiving him, but was, nevertheless, determined to go through the adventure with ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover


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