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MEMORIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they memorize ... he / she / it memorizes
Past simple: memorized
Past participle: memorized
-ing form: memorizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commit to memory; learn by heart
Example:
Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?
Synonyms:
con; learn; memorise; memorize
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "memorize" is one way to...):
hit the books; study (learn by reading books)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "memorize"):
alternate; understudy (be an understudy or alternate for a role)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They won't memorize the story
Derivation:
memorization (learning so as to be able to remember verbatim)
memorizer (a person who learns by rote)
memory (the power of retaining and recalling past experience)
memory (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)
memory (something that is remembered)
