FORGO (forgone, forwent)

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Irregular inflected forms: forgone    , forwent   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does forgo mean? 

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

1. do without or cease to hold or adhere to

2. be earlier in time; go back further

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

  Familiarity information: FORGO used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORGO (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they forgo    ... he / she / it forgoes   
Past simple: forwent   
Past participle: forgone   
-ing form: forgoing   

Sense 1

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 "forgo"):

give up; kick (stop consuming)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

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 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 "forgo" is one way to...):

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

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

lapse (let slip)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had returned to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come and visit us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the dining-room, of which, though already seen, and always to be seen at five o'clock, the general could not forgo the pleasure of pacing out the length, for the more certain information of Miss Morland, as to what she neither doubted nor cared for, they proceeded by quick communication to the kitchen—the ancient kitchen of the convent, rich in the massy walls and smoke of former days, and in the stoves and hot closets of the present.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)