REMIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remind mean? 

• REMIND (verb)
  The verb REMIND has 2 senses:

1. put in the mind of someone

2. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

  Familiarity information: REMIND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMIND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they remind    ... he / she / it reminds   
Past simple: reminded   
Past participle: reminded   
-ing form: reminding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in the mind of someone

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

Remind me to call Mother

Cause:

call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remind"):

take back (cause someone to remember the past)

nag (remind or urge constantly)

commemorate; immortalise; immortalize; memorialise; memorialize (be or provide a memorial to a person or an event)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They remind him to write the letter

Derivation:

reminder (an experience that causes you to remember something)

reminder (a message that helps you remember something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cue; prompt; remind

Hypernyms (to "remind" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

If you are a patient, don't be afraid to remind friends, family and health care providers to wash their hands before getting close to you.

(Infection Control, NIH)

Was he reminding you then? asked Jo softly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You may avoid places or people that remind you of the disaster.

(Coping with Disasters, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

I wonder whether they called in Mr. Chillip, and he was in vain; and if so, how he likes to be reminded of it once a week.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Shall I tell you of what it reminded me?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You should have been at the office for evening duty half an hour ago; only I hadn't the heart to remind you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Keep reminding yourself that change is good.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It had taken a piece out, and the sting of it reminded him of why he was there.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“These,” said he, “are all that I have left to remind me of the adventure of the Musgrave Ritual.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I might remind you that I found this cabin first and that you are my guests.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)