Cherish
Cherish verb - To keep in one's mind or heart.
Usage example: after all these years, she still cherishes the memory of her first summer romance
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| life | cherish life | keep life |
| relationship | cherish relationship | keep relationship |
| time | cherish time | keep time |
| friends | cherish friends | keep friends |
| Other words: memories. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Then he decides to return to the real world, set far into the future where they can fix his face and he may even have the chance to find Sofia "in another life." Additionally, he will probably keep and cherish the dream memories of Sofia.
Source: Film / Vanilla Sky - Cherish manipulated Lung into fighting Crawler in order to keep them both evolving towards a very real world-ending threat.
Source: Fan Fic / Cenotaph - While some, like Hirono, do actually cherish the Yakuza honor code, they find it nearly impossible to keep it in the immoral surroundings they find themselves in, and even they turn to assassinations, and murder just to stay alive.
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