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memory-wipe

memory-wipe verb: to erase memories, or specific memories, from the mind of (a person or being).

Verb

memory-wipe (third-person singular simple present memory-wipes, present participle memory-wiping, simple past and past participle memory-wiped)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) To erase memories, or specific memories, from the mind of (a person or being).
    • It was as if Linda's caress superceded all others in memory-wiping the slate clean of past experiences, charting a brand-new path.1998, Gail Link, Texan's Bride
    • I've asked my father to memory-wipe the other kids, so that they won't remember today.2007, Sara Bradshaw, Rachel Barber, Daniel Cowen, Sara Meira Rosenberg, Dylan Suher, Lucas Gonzalez, Julia Mayer, Carolyn Maughan, Samantha Lipman, Nine Novels by Younger Americans

Examples of memory-wipe in a sentence

  • She was made up, even if it felt real: the part about being memory-wiped, the part about not being from this family, not being what I thought I was.2016, Rachel Gold, My Year Zero:
  • Then, they will be memory-wiped and brought back home just 10 minutes after he was originally taken.2023, Ashwin Vinoo, Project Mankind, page 573:

Forms of memory-wipe

third-person singular presentmemory-wipes
present participlememory-wiping
past participlememory-wiped
pastmemory-wiped

Questions about memory-wipe

What does memory-wipe mean?
Memory-wipe means to erase memories, or specific memories, from the mind of (a person or being).
How do you use memory-wipe in a sentence?
She was made up, even if it felt real: the part about being memory-wiped, the part about not being from this family, not being what I thought I was.
What part of speech is memory-wipe?
Memory-wipe is a verb.
What is the past tense of memory-wipe?
The past tense of memory-wipe is memory-wiped.

Words near memory-wipe in the dictionary

  1. memory-holes
  2. memory-holing
  3. memory-ridden
  4. memory-safe
  5. memory-unsafe
  6. memory-wipe
  7. memory-wiped
  8. memory-wipes
  9. memory-wiping
  10. memorycide
  11. memorycides

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