1. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; - Example: "I can't remember saying any such thing" - Example: "I can't think what her last name was" - Example: "can you remember her phone number?" - Example: "Do you remember that he once loved you?" - Example: "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think]
2. keep in mind for attention or consideration; - Example: "Remember the Alamo" - Example: "Remember to call your mother every day!" - Example: "Think of the starving children in India!" [syn: remember, think of]
3. recapture the past; indulge in memories; - Example: "he remembered how he used to pick flowers" [syn: remember, think back]
4. show appreciation to; - Example: "He remembered her in his will"
5. mention favorably, as in prayer; - Example: "remember me in your prayers"
6. mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship; - Example: "Remember me to your wife" [syn: commend, remember]
7. exercise, or have the power of, memory; - Example: "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember" - Example: "some remember better than others"
8. call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; - Example: "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz" - Example: "Remember the dead of the First World War" [syn: commemorate, remember]