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memorize
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[ verb ] (education) commit to memory; learn by heart
Examples "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" Used in print (Eugene E. Golay, Organizing the Local Church for Effect...)Assign a series of catechism questions to be memorized . (Eugene Burdick, "The Invisible Aborigine"...)I would try to memorize landmarks and saw in a half-hour that it was hopeless . (R. Leslie Gourse, With Gall and Honey....)Some of them ignored the texts and had apparently memorized the words long_ago . (Patrick Dennis, Little Me....)Did he trouble to memorize the very small part which I had `` tailor-made '' to his specifications , a role eventually cut_down to three short speeches ? Related terms |
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