half-remember

verb

To vaguely or unclearly remember.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person half-remembers · participle present half-remembering · participle past half-remembered · past 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

Origin

From half- + remember.

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