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memory-holing

memory-holing noun: an action or instance of alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records. Also the present participle and gerund of memory-hole.

Noun

memory-holing (uncountable)

  1. An action or instance of alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records.
    • However, the extent of memory-holing that occurred with Elder Poelman's talk was not only extensive and unprecedented (as far as we know) but altogether ironic, given that all this occurred during the actual year of 1984.2015, D. Christian Markham, There Are Save Two Churches Only, Volume II, Volume 2

Also used as

memory-holing is also the present participle and gerund of memory-hole.

Questions about memory-holing

What does memory-holing mean?
Memory-holing means an action or instance of alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records.
What part of speech is memory-holing?
Memory-holing is a noun.

Words near memory-holing in the dictionary

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

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