half-remember

half-remember

English

Etymology

From half- +‎ remember.

Verb

half-remember (third-person singular simple present half-remembers, present participle half-remembering, simple past and past participle half-remembered)

  1. To vaguely or unclearly remember.
    • 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:
      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.
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