memorize

CEFRB1

/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
verb
To learn something so well that you can remember it exactly.
02
verb
Extra detail
To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Deep Dive

In context

I just can't memorize students' names.
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.
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.

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Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, →ISBN, page 543
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.
2009, A Practical Study of Argument, →ISBN, page 123
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.
2009, Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy, →ISBN, page 258

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