noun
1 ability to remember
ADJECTIVE
▪ excellent , good , long , prodigious , retentive
▪ awful , bad , faulty , poor , short , terrible
▪ long-term , short-term
▪
His short-term ~ was damaged in the accident.
▪ working
▪
the limitations of working ~
▪ collective
▪
the nation's collective ~
▪ public
▪
The incident faded from public ~.
▪ cultural , historical , institutional ( esp. AmE )
▪
How short our cultural ~ has become.
▪
the historical ~ of a culture
▪
the Army's institutional ~
▪ visual
▪
Bad spellers have a weak visual ~.
▪ photographic
▪ human
VERB + MEMORY
▪ jog , refresh
▪
Seeing your name in the paper jogged my ~.
▪ lose
▪
Most people start to lose their ~ as they get older.
▪ recover , regain
▪ haunt
▪
one of those films that haunts the ~ long after it has been watched
▪ commit sth to
▪
I committed the number to ~ and threw the letter away.
▪ search
▪
She searched her ~ for their names.
PREPOSITION
▪ from ~
▪
He recited the whole poem from ~.
▪ ~ for
▪
I have a good ~ for faces.
PHRASES
▪ in living ~ , in recent ~
▪
the coldest winter in living ~
▪ if ~ serves ( BrE ), if ~ serves me , if ~ serves me correctly , if ~ serves me right
▪
If ~ served her, his name was Stan.
2 thought of the past
ADJECTIVE
▪ childhood , early
▪
My earliest childhood ~ is of falling in a lake.
▪ dim , distant , faded , fading , faint , fuzzy ( esp. AmE ), hazy , vague
▪ clear , vivid
▪ affectionate ( esp. BrE ), cherished , fond , good , great , happy , lovely ( esp. BrE ), nostalgic , pleasant , positive , precious , special , sweet , treasured , warm , wonderful
▪ favourite/favorite
▪ bitter-sweet
▪ haunting
▪
the haunting memories of lost love
▪ awful , bad , bitter , disturbing , embarrassing , horrible , horrific , painful , sad , terrible , traumatic , unhappy , unpleasant , unwanted
▪ powerful , strong
▪ abiding ( esp. BrE ), enduring , lasting , lingering
▪
My abiding ~ of our first meeting is of a girl too shy to talk.
▪ fleeting
▪ forgotten , lost
▪
all the forgotten memories from when he was younger
▪ old
▪
the pain of old memories
▪ fresh , recent
▪
the fresh ~ of my momentous news this morning
▪ first
▪
one of my first memories
▪ shared
▪
They exchanged grins at the shared ~.
▪ repressed , suppressed
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a repressed ~ of trauma
▪ false
▪
false memories of abuse
▪
false ~ syndrome
▪ selective
▪ recovered
▪
recovered memories of abusive and violent incidents
▪ associative
VERB + MEMORY
▪ have
▪
I have memories of sitting on the back of the school bus.
▪ bring back , evoke , recall , rekindle , revive , spark , stir , stir up , trigger
▪ conjure , conjure up , retrieve
▪
Most young adults can retrieve memories of very early events.
▪ relive
▪
forced to relive painful memories
▪ remember
▪
I began to remember happy memories from my childhood.
▪ retain
▪ invoke
▪ cherish , treasure
▪
I will always treasure these memories.
▪ keep alive , preserve
▪ share
▪
The actors share fond memories of what Gene meant to them.
▪ block ( esp. AmE ), block out , blot out , bury , erase , push aside , push away , repress , suppress
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He tried to blot out his memories of the ordeal.
▪ record
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Keeping a journal is a great way to record your memories.
▪ hold
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a place that holds so many memories of Ellen
▪ be haunted by
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still haunted by memories of his father's death
MEMORY + VERB
▪ come flooding back , flood back , flood sb's mind ( esp. AmE ), rush back to sb
▪
When we visited my old family home, memories came flooding back.
▪ stir
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Memories stirred in Josie's mind.
▪ fade
PREPOSITION
▪ at the ~
▪
Her eyes gleamed at the ~.
▪ in ~ of
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He planted some apple trees in ~ of his wife.
▪ ~ from
▪
Smells and tastes often evoke memories from the past.
▪ ~ of
▪
fond memories of her childhood
PHRASES
▪ in loving ~
▪
in loving ~ of our beloved father
3 of a computer
ADJECTIVE
▪ computer , system
▪ cache , working
▪ flash
VERB + MEMORY
▪ expand
▪ take up
▪
Photographs take up a lot of ~.
MEMORY + NOUN
▪ stick
▪ drive
▪ slot