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half-remember

half-remember verb: to vaguely or unclearly remember.

Verb

half-remember (third-person singular simple present half-remembers, present participle half-remembering, simple past and past participle half-remembered)

  1. To vaguely or unclearly remember.
    • Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me. I so often wondered how she could be Atticus’s and Uncle Jack’s sister that I revived half-remembered tales of changelings and mandrake roots that Jem had spun long ago.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 142

Forms of half-remember

third-person singular presenthalf-remembers
present participlehalf-remembering
past participlehalf-remembered
pasthalf-remembered

Origin of half-remember

From half- + remember.

Questions about half-remember

What does half-remember mean?
Half-remember means to vaguely or unclearly remember.
What part of speech is half-remember?
Half-remember is a verb.
What is the past tense of half-remember?
The past tense of half-remember is half-remembered.

Words near half-remember in the dictionary

  1. half-reactions
  2. half-read
  3. half-relaxation time
  4. half-relaxation times
  5. half-relief
  6. half-remember
  7. half-rep
  8. half-reps
  9. half-rocked
  10. half-round
  11. half-rounds

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