MEMORIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they memorize ... he / she / it memorizes

Past simple: memorized

Past participle: memorized

-ing form: memorizing

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)