remind

/riˈmaɪnd/

/rɛˈmaɪnd/

Other forms: reminded; reminds; reminding

To remind is to cause someone to remember, as when George Orwell writes, "The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

In remind, which appears in the early 17th century, the re-, of course, means "again," so the word can be thought of as "to mind again," or "think again," meaning to put something in someone's mind, to make them remember.

Definitions of remind

1. verb

   put in the mind of someone
   “Remind me to call Mother”

   types:

   take back

   cause someone to remember the past

   nag

   remind or urge constantly

   commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record

   be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

   monumentalise, monumentalize

   record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
2. verb

   assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
   synonyms: cue, prompt

   type of:

   inform

   impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to