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Forget

//fəˈɡɛt// name, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To lose remembrance of. transitive

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

  2. 2
    be unable to remember wordnet
  3. 3
    To unintentionally not do, neglect. transitive

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

  4. 4
    dismiss from the mind; stop remembering wordnet
  5. 5
    To unintentionally leave something behind. transitive

    "I forgot my car keys in the living room."

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  1. 6
    leave behind unintentionally wordnet
  2. 7
    To cease remembering. intransitive

    "Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it."

  3. 8
    forget to do something wordnet
  4. 9
    To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it). broadly, informal, transitive

    "People forget how much work goes into what we do."

  5. 10
    Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath). slang

    "Forget you!"

Etymology

From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get. Cognate with : * Scots forget, forȝet (“to forget”), * West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”), * Dutch vergeten (“to forget”), * German vergessen (“to forget”).

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