memorize
verb (used with object)
to commit to memory; learn by heart.
memorizes
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present tense formof memorize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Below, the actor from Arkansas, 70, talks about being a mouthpiece for Sheridan, smoking on the job and how his dyslexia and obsessive compulsive disorder influence the way he memorizes lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
See that stuff, memorizing that — who memorizes who played this in a movie?
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024
Later, as a student in Oxford, Jeanie memorizes a line from Flannery O’Connor: “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
“I know she memorizes numbers,” Yates says, so engraved on the charm was Yates’s phone number, “in case she needed me.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2021
She reads the first half of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea so many times, she practically memorizes it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
