ENGLISH: remember - CREOLE: sonje



Overview of verb remember



The verb remember has 8 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)



1. (106) remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think -- (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")

2. (53) remember, think of -- (keep in mind for attention or consideration; "Remember the Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day!"; "Think of the starving children in India!")

3. (23) remember, think back -- (recapture the past; indulge in memories; "he remembered how he used to pick flowers")

4. (2) remember -- (show appreciation to; "He remembered her in his will")

5. remember -- (mention favourably, as in prayer; "remember me in your prayers")

6. commend, remember -- (mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship; "Remember me to your wife")

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

8. commemorate, remember -- (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")

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