FOREGO (foregone, forewent)

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Irregular inflected forms: foregone    , forewent   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does forego mean? 

• FOREGO (verb)
  The verb FOREGO has 3 senses:

1. be earlier in time; go back further

2. do without or cease to hold or adhere to

3. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

  Familiarity information: FOREGO used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREGO (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they forego    ... he / she / it foregoes   
Past simple: forewent   
Past participle: foregone   
-ing form: foregoing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be earlier in time; go back further

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

antecede; antedate; forego; forgo; precede; predate

Context example:

Stone tools precede bronze tools

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Do without or cease to hold or adhere to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

dispense with; forego; foreswear; forgo; relinquish; waive

Context example:

relinquish the old ideas

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forego"):

give up; kick (stop consuming)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

forego; forfeit; forgo; give up; throw overboard; waive

Context example:

forfeited property

Hypernyms (to "forego" is one way to...):

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forego"):

lapse (let slip)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Oh, you know, deuce take it, said this gentleman, looking round the board with an imbecile smile, we can't forego Blood, you know.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But, though he worked in the sled in the day, White Fang did not forego the guarding of his master's property in the night.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And what claims has Lydia—what attraction has she beyond youth, health, and good humour that could make him, for her sake, forego every chance of benefiting himself by marrying well?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Another night Dub and Joe fought Spitz and made him forego the punishment they deserved.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Being able to possess it, I wrong myself and the life that is in me if I give it to you and forego the pleasure of possessing it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Happily Van Helsing has not summoned me, so I need not forego my sleep; to-night I could not well do without it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So far I have written each of the foregoing events as it occurred.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did she love him well enough to forego what had used to be essential points?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

About noon, however, she began—but with a caution—a dread of disappointment which for some time kept her silent, even to her friend—to fancy, to hope she could perceive a slight amendment in her sister's pulse;—she waited, watched, and examined it again and again;—and at last, with an agitation more difficult to bury under exterior calmness, than all her foregoing distress, ventured to communicate her hopes.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)