Forget

/fəˈɡɛt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To lose remembrance of..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
2. (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
3. (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
4. (intransitive) To cease remembering.
5. (transitive, loosely, informal) To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
6. (slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).

Example Sentences

I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.

VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?

For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.

Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder,[…]

Everybody, old and young, laughs uproariously at this and immediately forgets all about it.

Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.

In conditions of unlimited global-digital 'web-memory' (labelled by one critic a 'globital age'), social remembering and forgetting have become functions of algorithm-based search technologies that mine data from users […]

I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.

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• forgets
• forgetting
• forgot
• forgat
• forgotten

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