"memory-hole" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "memory hole"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of memory hole"
      ],
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          "memory hole#English"
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  "word": "memory-hole"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "memory-holes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "memory-holing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "memory-holed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "memory-holed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "memory-hole (third-person singular simple present memory-holes, present participle memory-holing, simple past and past participle memory-holed)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel, page 458",
          "text": "... since the stage was a classic and had been around a long time, most people still called it by its original and now memory-holed name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 Dennis E. Showalter, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ztYfrg44M64C&pg=RA1-PT164",
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michael Youssef, The Hidden Enemy: Aggressive Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Fight for Our Future, page 105",
          "text": "It's possible that the New York Times memory-holed the Pastor Giglio paragraph on its own, without any pressure from the Obama White House. That seems unlikely since it was done in violation of the Times' own policy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause something or someone to be forgotten."
      ],
      "id": "en-memory-hole-en-verb-~2A8WePZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "forgotten",
          "forgotten"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To cause something or someone to be forgotten."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
          "word": "löschen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
          "word": "entfernen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
          "word": "aus dem Gedächtnis streichen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
          "word": "dem Vergessen anheimstellen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
          "word": "ins Nirwana verschwinden lassen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "memory-hole"
}

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      "form": "memory-holes",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "memory hole"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of memory hole"
      ],
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          "memory hole",
          "memory hole#English"
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  "word": "memory-hole"
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    "English lemmas",
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    "English nouns",
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "memory-holes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "memory-holing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "memory-holed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "memory-holed",
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        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel, page 458",
          "text": "... since the stage was a classic and had been around a long time, most people still called it by its original and now memory-holed name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 Dennis E. Showalter, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ztYfrg44M64C&pg=RA1-PT164",
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michael Youssef, The Hidden Enemy: Aggressive Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Fight for Our Future, page 105",
          "text": "It's possible that the New York Times memory-holed the Pastor Giglio paragraph on its own, without any pressure from the Obama White House. That seems unlikely since it was done in violation of the Times' own policy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause something or someone to be forgotten."
      ],
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        [
          "forgotten",
          "forgotten"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To cause something or someone to be forgotten."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
      "word": "löschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
      "word": "entfernen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
      "word": "aus dem Gedächtnis streichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
      "word": "dem Vergessen anheimstellen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause something or someone to be forgotten",
      "word": "ins Nirwana verschwinden lassen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "memory-hole"
}