remember

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to remember something
rememberDo you remember when her birthday is?
recallI don't recall arranging a time to meet.
recollectI didn't recollect having seen him.
remindEvery time we meet he reminds me about the money he lent me.
come back toI forgot his name but it's just come back to me.
reminisceWe were just reminiscing about our school days.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Remembering, reminding and reminders
aide-mémoire
annal
awaken someone to something
be engraved on someone's memory/mindidiom
be etched on/in someone's memoryidiom
commit
echo
if my memory serves me rightidiom
imprint
in commemoration of someone/something
indelible
jog someone's memoryidiom
recall
remind someone of something/someone
reminder
reminisce
reminiscence
reminiscent
shade
stamp

recollect | American Dictionary

recollect
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˌrek·əˈlekt/
to remember something:
[ I ]There were five young men in the car, as near as I can recollect.

Examples of recollect

recollect
The migratory route of the settlement's founding patrilineage is recollected at certain ritual occasions at the village earth shrine and during the initiation ceremony (bagr).
One of these she could recollect in considerable detail.
Similarly, this inability to voluntarily recollect most of the episode would explain victims' occasional inability to provide a coherent narrative account of the event.
They have impounded this land, re-made it into their far-off recollected pasts.
After their injury they have lost the ability to store and later recollect consciously having been a witness to specific events.
The participants referred to awareness when discussing acts of recognising, recollecting, recalling and remembering.
We noted that a common thread through people's efforts to remember, recall, reminisce and recollect was an ability to look back to their past experiences.
In addition, the performers indicate through their gestures that, in order to recollect, they are reliant on the spectator for actual physical support.
The term ' non-narrative ' refers to bodily and spatial sites (and practices around them) that organized, recollected and commented upon peoples' pasts.
These became the basis of texts sung here, the improvisation attempting to recollect the river's presence through echoes of earlier singing.
Another woman recollected that she was persuaded by a neighbour to visit the centre.
It will in significant ways depend on how we picture the contents of our own dreams when we recollect them.
I don't recollect looking at the score much either.
Beetles were recollected from the traps in the morning on three occasions each two days apart.
Again, the object of the exercise is not to recollect ' exactly' but to reconstruct, recognize, and use one's inventoried store on new and later occasions.
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