half-remember en · VERB
Etymology
From half- + remember.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| half-remembered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| half-remembered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| half-remembering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| half-remembers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |