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Forget   /fərgˈɛt/  /fɔrgˈɛt/   Listen
Forget

verb
(past forgot, obs. forgat; past part. forgotten, forgot; pres. part. forgetting)
1.
Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering.  Synonym: bury.
2.
Be unable to remember.  Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank.  "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"
3.
Forget to do something.
4.
Leave behind unintentionally.  Synonym: leave.  "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"



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"Forget" Quotes from Famous Books



... forget to mention "Rover," a lovely retriever; he was quite of the family, fairly worshipped by his little master, and the pet of the whole ship. He looked upon baby Lily as his own special property, and no stranger dare approach if ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... brought ghostly and abominable smells into our streets; and if that were to haunt us by day and night, a phantom from which there was no escape, to remain till the sins of Europe were expiated, we should soon forget politics and arguments, and be in sackcloth and ashes, positive no longer, but down on our knees before Heaven in awe at this revelation of social guilt, asking simply what we must do to ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson

... round bit of a face under th' coffin-lid. Th' day comn when we could bear to talk about him an' moind things he'd said an' tried to say i' his broken babby way. An' so we wur creepin' back again to th' old happy quiet, an' we had been for welly six month, when summat fresh come. I'll never forget it, Mester, th' neet it happened. I'd kissed Rosanna at th' door an' left her standin' theer when I went up to th' village to buy summat she wanted. It wur a bright moon light neet, just such a neet ...
— "Surly Tim" - A Lancashire Story • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... body corporate, whose very existence as such is professedly to cultivate and disseminate the principles of sound morality and true religion, does fall so far short of the faith delivered to the saints—does so far forget its origin, and pervert its aims, as to violate common law and common honesty, and persist in its violation, deliberately, against repeated remonstrances, by sheer force? Yet we see no convulsion in the community. Nothing intimates that a great grief is fallen upon Israel. ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... handful leading him to death! What made them break the ties which bound them to their brother noble? What made them forget mutual pleasures enjoyed, mutual perils ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert


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