ADJ
- excellent, good, long, prodigious, retentive
- bad, poor, short
- long-term, short-term
- His short-term memory was damaged in the accident
- visual
- Bad spellers have a weak visual memory
- photographic
VERB + MEMORY
- jog, refresh
- Seeing your name in the paper jogged my memory
- lose
- Most people start to lose their memory as they get older
- commit sth to
- I committed the number to memory and threw the letter away
PREP
- from ~
- He recited the whole poem from memory
- ~ for
- I have a good memory for faces
PHRASES
- in living/recent memory
- the coldest winter in living memory
ADJ
- childhood, early
- My earliest childhood memory is of falling in a pond in winter
- dim, distant, fading, hazy, vague
- clear, vivid
- affectionate, fond, good, happy, lovely, nostalgic, pleasant, positive, precious, sweet, warm, wonderful
- bitter-sweet
- bad, bitter, disturbing, embarrassing, horrific, painful, sad, traumatic, unhappy, unpleasant
- abiding, enduring, lasting, lingering
- My abiding memory of our first meeting is of a girl too shy to talk
VERB + MEMORY
- bring back, evoke, rekindle, revive, stir (up)
- blot out
- He tried to blot out his memories of the ordeal
MEMORY + VERB
- come flooding back, flood back
- When we visited my old family home, memories came flooding back
- fade
PREP
- in ~ of
- He planted some apple trees in memory of his wife
- ~ from
- Smells and tastes often evoke memories from the past
- ~ of
- fond memories of her childhood