herma; shrine, reliquary, mausoleum, pyramid, cenotaph; inscription, plaque, marker, grave marker, tombstone, headstone, stone, slab, Chiefly Brit, hatchment, (in Polynesia) ahu, All Archaeol. dolmen, cromlech, menhir.
2. commemoration, commemorative, remembrance, reminiscence, reminder, memento, memory; observance, celebration, memorial service or ceremony, wake, funeral, obsequy, eulogy, eulogium, Obs. observation.
3. memorandum, remonstrance, expostulation, protest, grievance, Law. petition; bill of particulars, itemization, listing.
memorialize, v. commemorate, remember, observe, honor, pay homage or tribute to, celebrate, eulogize; monument, mark, build [s.t.] in honor of, make an inscription for; enshrine, immortalize, preserve, keep for perpetuity.
memorize, v. commit to memory, con, learn by heart or rote, imprint on the memory or brain, learn word for word, make [s.t.] one's own; keep in mind, hold in remembrance, have at one's fingertips; retain, get, concentrate on.
memory, n. 1. retention, retentive memory, recall, total recall, Psychol, mneme; photographic memory, camera eye; mind, Inf rememberer, storehouse of the mind, intelligence, wit, awareness; calling to mind, retrospection, recollecting, remembering, minding, looking back, reviewing the past, summoning up the past.
2. remembrance, recollection, reminiscence, retrospect; thought, glimmering from the past, whisper from the past, something from the dim recesses of the mind, reminder, prompting.
3. posthumous glory, reputation, fame; renown, honor, respect, regard, esteem, repute.
4. commemoration, memorial, memento, testimonial; token, souvenir, keepsake; memory jogger, hint, suggestion.
menace, n. 1. danger, peril, risk, hazard; deathtrap, quicksand, sleeping volcano, time bomb, bomb; specter, terror, dread, fright, apprehension, sword of Damocles, impending danger or doom.
2. intimidation, threat, warning, commination; Cassandra, bird of ill-omen, handwriting on the wall, gathering clouds, clouds on the horizon, brewing storm.
-v. 3. threaten, frighten, scare, terrify, alarm; in timidate, daunt, terrorize, cow; browbeat, bully, thunder at, yell at, fulminate; snarl, growl, rattle one's sabers, bark; lower, glower, scowl.
4. tower over, hang over, beetle; impend, loom; portend, forebode, forewarn; be in the air, be in the offing.
menacing, adj. threatening, frightening, terrifying, intimidating, minacious; dangerous, perilous, hazardous, risky, chancy; formidable, horrible, making one's hair stand on end; looming, pending, impending, portending, hanging over, hanging heavy, over one's head.
manage, n. 1. household, family, kin, those near and dear; nuclear family, extended family, commune. 2. housekeeping, housecleaning, stewardship, household management.
menagerie, n. 1. zoo denizens, circus animals; trained animals, Gunther Gebel-Williams animals.
2. zoo, zoological park or garden, animal farm, Ger. Tier gar ten, vivarium, Bronx zoo.
mend, v. 1. repair, remedy, fix, fix up, doctor or doctor up, patch up, patch; put back together, put back in one piece, restore, rehabilitate, make good as new; sew or sew up, stitch, darn, strengthen, reinforce; cure, heal, restore to health, make well or whole, Inf. bring around, put back on one's feet; reclaim, save, bring