memory-holing

noun

An action or instance of alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records.

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Meanings

nounmemory-holing (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn 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
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of memory-hole
Cite this entry
APA

memory-holing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memory-holing

MLA

“memory-holing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memory-holing. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “memory-holing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memory-holing.

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