remember

Verbs

  • (v) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
    • I can't remember saying any such thing
    • 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
    recall, recollect, call back, call up, retrieve, think,
  • (v) keep in mind for attention or consideration
    • Remember the Alamo
    • Remember to call your mother every day!
    • Think of the starving children in India!
    think of,
  • (v) recapture the past; indulge in memories
    • he remembered how he used to pick flowers
    think back,
  • (v) show appreciation to
    • He remembered her in his will
  • (v) mention favorably, as in prayer
    • remember me in your prayers
  • (v) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
    • Remember me to your wife
    commend,
  • (v) exercise, or have the power of, memory
    • After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember
    • some remember better than others
  • (v) 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
    commemorate,

Synonyms

recall recollect call back call up retrieve think think of think back commend commemorate

Antonyms

blank out draw a blank forget block bury

See also

think back

Words of close approximity

remembering remember oneself