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memory-holing en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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:

memory-holing en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of memory-hole
    form of memory-hole