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  • verb Present participle of memorize.

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Examples

  • For me memorizing is one of the most easiest things to do.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • The increased amount of preparatory work involved in memorizing a score certainly gives one an increased insight into the composition and to be freed from the necessity of reading the printed page gives a much greater authority and command in the whole attitude of the conductor at the performance.

    Good Music Made Popular 1934

  • Pausert was mildly surprised to realize that the idea of memorizing four parts (or more, if he was going to understudy more than one in each play) didn't bother him that much.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • He recalled memorizing Scripture during the academy chapel services.

    Former Reorganized Latter-Day Saint returns as a Baptist campus minister 2003

  • She wanted me to try out, but the idea of memorizing pages of dialogue always had sounded like mind-numbing torture to me.

    Forever Free Haldeman, Joe 1999

  • As a fan of the game I'm definitely excited about the idea of memorizing a brand new area and then taking them online, so it bums me out that I can't bring you an early morning hand's on preview.

    Gaming Nexus 2009

  • As a fan of the game I'm definitely excited about the idea of memorizing a brand new area and then taking them online, so it bums me out that I can't bring you an early morning hand's on preview.

    Gaming Nexus 2009

  • Raichle, of Washington University in St. Louis, and others saw that every time a person engaged in a mental activity such as memorizing a list of words, a collection of brain regions consistently decreased activity compared with their resting levels.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • We speak of memorizing as getting something ‘by heart,’ which really means ‘by head.’

    Audio of To His Coy Mistress: Memorize these lines and score 2008

  • We speak of memorizing as getting something ‘by heart,’ which really means ‘by head.’

    2008 December 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

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