memorize
verbCA, UK, US /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/ · AU /ˈmem.əˌɹɑɪ̯z/
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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.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:
1 more example
- 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:
- Derived terms
- memorizability, memorizable, memorization, memorizer, mismemorize, nonmemorized, rememorize, unmemorized