"memory-hole" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: memory-holes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} memory-hole (plural memory-holes)
  1. Alternative form of memory hole Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: memory hole
    Sense id: en-memory-hole-en-noun-7BjNuS5i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 72 28

Verb [English]

Forms: memory-holes [present, singular, third-person], memory-holing [participle, present], memory-holed [participle, past], memory-holed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} memory-hole (third-person singular simple present memory-holes, present participle memory-holing, simple past and past participle memory-holed)
  1. (transitive) To cause something or someone to be forgotten. Tags: transitive Translations (to cause something or someone to be forgotten): löschen (German), entfernen (German), aus dem Gedächtnis streichen (German), dem Vergessen anheimstellen (German), ins Nirwana verschwinden lassen (German)
    Sense id: en-memory-hole-en-verb-~2A8WePZ

Inflected forms

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          "text": "His response, supported by Vasilevsky and Khrushchev, presented a highly embellished account that mollified the Vozhd and was memory-holed by a subsequent field performance solid enough to bring Rotmistrov assignment as deputy commander of Red Army armored and mechanized forces in November 1944.",
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          "text": "But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump.",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
          "word": "entfernen"
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          "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
      "word": "entfernen"
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      "word": "aus dem Gedächtnis streichen"
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      "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
      "word": "dem Vergessen anheimstellen"
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