Disremember

//dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To fail to remember; to forget. US, dialectal

    "“[…] and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend’s house, Miss What-you-may-call-her, I disremember her name, and they lost their steering-oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, […]"

Synonyms

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forget

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"“[…] and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend’s house, Miss What-you-may-call-her, I disremember her name, and they lost their steering-oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, […]"

Etymology

From dis- + remember.

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