Collocations for memory - noun

excellent, good, long, prodigious, retentive
awful, bad, faulty, poor, short, terrible
long-term, short-term
His short-term memory was damaged in the accident.

working
the limitations of working memory

collective
the nation's collective memory

public
The incident faded from public memory.

cultural, historical, institutional (esp. AmE)
How short our cultural memory has become.
the historical memory of a culture
the Army's institutional memory

visual
Bad spellers have a weak visual memory.

photographic
human

jog, refresh
Seeing your name in the paper jogged my memory.

lose
Most people start to lose their memory as they get older.

recover, regain
haunt
one of those films that haunts the memory long after it has been watched

commit sth to
I committed the number to memory and threw the letter away.

search
She searched her memory for their names.

from memory
He recited the whole poem from memory.

memory for
I have a good memory for faces.

in living memory, in recent memory
the coldest winter in living memory

if memory serves (BrE), if memory serves me, if memory serves me correctly, if memory serves me right
If memory served her, his name was Stan.

childhood, early
My earliest childhood memory is of falling in a lake.

dim, distant, faded, fading, faint, fuzzy (esp. AmE), hazy, vague
clear, vivid
affectionate (esp. BrE), cherished, fond, good, great, happy, lovely (esp. BrE), nostalgic, pleasant, positive, precious, special, sweet, treasured, warm, wonderful
favourite/favorite
bitter-sweet
haunting
the haunting memories of lost love

awful, bad, bitter, disturbing, embarrassing, horrible, horrific, painful, sad, terrible, traumatic, unhappy, unpleasant, unwanted
powerful, strong
abiding (esp. BrE), enduring, lasting, lingering
My abiding memory of our first meeting is of a girl too shy to talk.

fleeting
forgotten, lost
all the forgotten memories from when he was younger

old
the pain of old memories

fresh, recent
the fresh memory of my momentous news this morning

first
one of my first memories

shared
They exchanged grins at the shared memory.

repressed, suppressed
a repressed memory of trauma

false
false memories of abuse
false memory syndrome

selective
recovered
recovered memories of abusive and violent incidents

associative

have
I have memories of sitting on the back of the school bus.

bring back, evoke, recall, rekindle, revive, spark, stir, stir up, trigger
conjure, conjure up, retrieve
Most young adults can retrieve memories of very early events.

relive
forced to relive painful memories

remember
I began to remember happy memories from my childhood.

retain
invoke
cherish, treasure
I will always treasure these memories.

keep alive, preserve
share
The actors share fond memories of what Gene meant to them.

block (esp. AmE), block out, blot out, bury, erase, push aside, push away, repress, suppress
He tried to blot out his memories of the ordeal.

record
Keeping a journal is a great way to record your memories.

hold
a place that holds so many memories of Ellen

be haunted by
still haunted by memories of his father's death

come flooding back, flood back, flood sb's mind (esp. AmE), rush back to sb
When we visited my old family home, memories came flooding back.

stir
Memories stirred in Josie's mind.

fade

at the memory
Her eyes gleamed at the memory.

in memory of
He planted some apple trees in memory of his wife.

memory from
Smells and tastes often evoke memories from the past.

memory of
fond memories of her childhood

in loving memory
in loving memory of our beloved father

computer, system
cache, working
flash

expand
take up
Photographs take up a lot of memory.

stick
drive
slot