reminded

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re⋅mind

[ri-mahynd]

–verb (used with object)

to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.

Origin:
1635–45; re- + mind

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re·mind (rĭ-mīnd')

tr.v. re·mind·ed, re·mind·ing, re·minds
To cause to remember; put in mind: must remind him to call; reminded her of college days.
re·mind'er n.

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Word Origin & History

remind

1645, "to remember," from re- "again" + mind (v.). Meaning "to put (someone) in mind of (something)" is first recorded 1660. Reminder is attested from 1653.

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