different between memrize vs memorize

English

Verb

memrize (third-person singular simple present memrizes, present participle memrizing, simple past and past participle memrized)

1. Pronunciation spelling of memorize, representing dialectal English.
   • 1990, Speakeasy: people with mental handicaps talk, page 102:

     I learned how to say recitations and memrize 'em without the paper.

   • 1996, Bo Whaley, Gun Racks and Six-Packs: The Life and Times, page 39:

     "I ain't memrized it all yet, but I know how it starts off.

   • 2011, M. A. Oberg, Steven Hutson, Ellison Custodio, The Remnant: Through the Shroud, page 63

     "You will take dese manuals dat include laws recordid by Remnant. You will read and memrize [them] to obey [them] and be beder citzens!"

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) memorise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?m.???a??z/
• Hyphenation: mem?or?ize

Verb

memorize (third-person singular simple present memorizes, present participle memorizing, simple past and past participle memorized)

1. To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.
   • 2009, A Practical Study of Argument ?ISBN, page 123:

     Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.

Derived terms

• memorization

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

memorize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of memorizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of memorizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of memorizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of memorizar