remind
Americanverb (used with object)
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reminds,
present (3rd person singular)
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reminded,
past participle, past
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reminding
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
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Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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remindsimple
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remindssimple
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have remindedperfect
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has remindedperfect
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am remindingprogressive
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are remindingprogressive
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is remindingprogressive
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have been remindingperfect progressive
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has been remindingperfect progressive
Past
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remindedsimple
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had remindedperfect
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was remindingprogressive
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were remindingprogressive
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had been remindingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of remind
Explanation
To remind is to cause someone to remember, as when George Orwell writes, "The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded." In remind, which appears in the early 17th century, the re-, of course, means "again," so the word can be thought of as "to mind again," or "think again," meaning to put something in someone's mind, to make them remember.
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Example Sentences
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As an embarrassingly large number of readers often remind me, I own the Pulitzer Prize for Pitiful Prognostication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
But I want you to remind folks that there’s actually doctrine on all this.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
There's nothing like talk of energy prices and potential higher borrowing costs to remind us that the summer holidays are well and truly over.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
I have to remind him constantly to research before starting a project, or to reference campaign materials.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
She was starting to remind Danny of Ms. Esposito.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Whatever their origins, these monuments, Mr. Warrack reminds us, are part of our shared human heritage; as their inheritors, it is our responsibility to understand and preserve them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Ahead of Saturday's trip to Stamford Bridge, the club reminds all supporters that discrimination of any kind is wholly unacceptable and will not be tolerated," it added.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“The heart and rhythm of the music and the drums and the spiciness,” she added, in her People interview, “it all reminds me of Creole, which is my heritage, and where I come from.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Luria said Hugging Face reminds him of GitHub, a platform on which users share code.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Something that reminds me of feelings that I have had but also makes me think that there are many feelings I have not yet experienced.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Conversations like this reminded me that people with little power are often attuned to the differences between what they hear from authorities and what they know in their guts.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
He says he felt like an ant walking into the huge facility on his first day in prison; the guard towers reminded him of skyscrapers.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
When former first-grade teacher Ranah Ahmed Burney saw it circulating, she was reminded of a student who wasn’t allowed sugar at home and had begun stealing cookies from a classmate’s lunchbox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The 32-year-old said managers have verbally reminded staff that "sensitive countries such as Japan are definitely off-limits".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Thank you,” I said, and started to leave, but then my stomach reminded me to ask, “Do you have any food you could spare? I’ve been traveling a long time.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The show is finally back to reminding us of people’s essential goodness, maybe even Alice’s.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
We pitched our tent beside the high-school track and watched buses of Ragbrai participants pull into town, reminding us of the pilgrim busloads in Shikoku.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
"It's about reminding us that we're harvesting some things, but we need to wait. We need to wait in stillness."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
OpenAI is also introducing regular reminders for young people to take a break from using the tool, reminding them ChatGPT is AI, and saying "it can wait".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Penelope sat up extra straight in her chair, much the way Miss Mortimer did when she was reminding the girls at Swanburne not to mope and complain.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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