memorizing
memorizing is the present participle and gerund of memorize.
Meaning of memorize
Verb
memorize (third-person singular simple present memorizes, present participle memorizing, simple past and past participle memorized)
- 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
Noun
memorizing (countable and uncountable, plural memorizings)
- memorization
- Various teachers have announced that passages from the classics were to be committed to memory in their schools; but Ruthardt rejects the matter and the manner of these former memorizings.1859, American Journal of Education, volume 6, page 602
Forms of memorizing
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Questions about memorizing
- What does memorizing mean?
- Memorizing means memorization.
- What is memorizing the present participle and gerund of?
- Memorizing is the present participle and gerund of memorize.
- What part of speech is memorizing?
- Memorizing is a noun.
- What is the plural of memorizing?
- The plural of memorizing is memorizings.
Words near memorizing in the dictionary
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