memory-hole
See also: memory hole
English
Verb
memory-hole (third-person singular simple present memory-holes, present participle memory-holing, simple past and past participle memory-holed)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause something or someone to be forgotten.
- 2009 Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel page 458
- ... 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.
- 2013 Dennis E. Showalter,
- 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.
- 2018 Michael Youssef, The Hidden Enemy: Aggressive Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Fight for Our Future page 105
- 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.
- 2009 Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel page 458
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