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FORGET (forgetting, forgot, forgotten)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forget mean?
• FORGET (verb)
The verb FORGET has 4 senses:
1. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
4. leave behind unintentionally
Familiarity information: FORGET used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: forgot
Past participle: forgotten
-ing form: forgetting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
bury; forget
Context example:
I tried to bury these unpleasant memories
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forget"):
unlearn (try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge)
repress; suppress (put out of one's consciousness)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sentence example:
They won't forget the story
Antonym:
remember (keep in mind for attention or consideration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be unable to remember
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
blank out; block; draw a blank; forget
Context example:
You are blocking the name of your first wife!
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forget"):
slip; slip one's mind (pass out of one's memory)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
They won't forget the story
Antonym:
remember (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Forget to do something
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!
Hypernyms (to "forget" is one way to...):
drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit (leave undone or leave out)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Sentence example:
They forget to move
Antonym:
mind (keep in mind)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Leave behind unintentionally
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
forget; leave
Context example:
I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors
Hypernyms (to "forget" is one way to...):
lose (miss from one's possessions; lose sight of)
Verb group:
leave (go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
Sentence example:
They forget the money in the closet
Context examples
Mercury retrograde is not all bad, which is something we often forget when we hear the words.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Ah, of course, I forgot that.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A little red-skinned wife and a cave of our own were freely offered to each of us if we would but forget our own people and dwell forever upon the plateau.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A stout little retainer came in with chains and led them away, looking very much frightened and evidently forgetting the speech he ought to have made.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Did I forget! shall I ever—can I ever!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion's great jaws.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I could never forget those domestic pledges I had left behind me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"I've already forgotten. Don't let us read any more. The day is too beautiful."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant and forget those they do love, or have loved.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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