The word 'memorise' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when talking or writing about the action of committing something to memory. Example sentence: I spent all day memorising the words of the poem.
In the very early days, when it began to be difficult to write things down, he had to memorise everything.
You wouldn't try and improve at a game by trying to memorise moves, you'd practise making them.
In the early days, each scene was very simple and I could memorise my lines on the spot, but the show evolved and the storylines became much more elaborate as the years passed, so now I keep my cues and my lines taped to the inside of the costume.
We cannot memorise all the rivers or mountains on Earth.
I tried to memorise how I had run at altitude and use the same tactics.
Children wouldn't be able to memorise them.
A penniless Cuban immigrant, he asked a friend to write them out phonetically on a piece of paper so he could memorise them.
On each occasion the participants tried to memorise and recall 100 combinations of pictures and names.
If most exams quantify students' ability to memorise material, this one aims to assess their effectiveness at problem-solving.
As long as the entrance requirements for universities and senior secondary schools remain based on the results of national exams which primarily test students' ability to memorise, parents will pile on the same pressures.
The piano-like keyboard was later replaced with an alphanumeric keyboard, which saved the operator from having to memorise chords.
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