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memory-holes

memory-holes is the plural of memory-hole.

memory-holes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of memory-hole.

Meaning of memory-hole

Verb

memory-hole (third-person singular simple present memory-holes, present participle memory-holing, simple past and past participle memory-holed)

  1. (transitive) To cause something or someone to be forgotten.
    • […] since the stage was a classic and had been around a long time, most people still called it by its original and now memory-holed name.2009, Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel, page 458

Questions about memory-holes

What is memory-holes the plural of?
Memory-holes is the plural of memory-hole.

Words near memory-holes in the dictionary

  1. memory typewriters
  2. memory unit
  3. memory units
  4. memory-hole
  5. memory-holed
  6. memory-holes
  7. memory-holing
  8. memory-ridden
  9. memory-safe
  10. memory-unsafe
  11. memory-wipe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: memory-holes (page history and authors); memory-hole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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