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memorize

verbattested in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z//
  • Australia//ˈmem.əˌɹɑɪ̯z//

To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.

verb

  1. 1

    To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.

    I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.

    Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.

    She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.

Forms

past tense
memorized
past participle
memorized
present participle
memorizing
third person singular
memorizes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).