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ALL meanings of forget

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  • noun forget Both forgot and forgotten are used as the past participle of forget:  Many have already forgot  (or forgotten) the hard times of the Depression. Only forgotten is used attributively:  half-forgotten memories.   1
  • transitive verb forget not remember 1
  • verb with object forget to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name. 1
  • verb with object forget to omit or neglect unintentionally: I forgot to shut the window before leaving. 1
  • verb with object forget to leave behind unintentionally; neglect to take: to forget one's keys. 1
  • verb with object forget to omit mentioning; leave unnoticed. 1
  • verb with object forget to fail to think of; take no note of. 1
  • verb with object forget to neglect willfully; disregard or slight. 1
  • verb without object forget to cease or omit to think of something. 1
  • idioms forget forget oneself, to say or do something improper or unbefitting one's rank, position, or character. 1
  • noun forget Fail to remember. 1
  • verb forget If you forget something or forget how to do something, you cannot think of it or think how to do it, although you knew it or knew how to do it in the past. 0
  • verb forget If you forget something or forget to do it, you fail to think about it or fail to remember to do it, for example because you are thinking about other things. 0
  • verb forget If you forget something that you had intended to bring with you, you do not bring it because you did not think about it at the right time. 0
  • verb forget If you forget something or someone, you deliberately put them out of your mind and do not think about them any more. 0
  • verb forget If you forget yourself, you behave in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way, which is not the way in which you usually behave. 0
  • verb forget to fail to recall (someone or something once known); be unable to remember 0
  • verb forget to neglect, usually as the result of an unintentional error 0
  • verb forget to leave behind by mistake 0
  • verb forget to disregard intentionally 0
  • verb forget to fail to mention 0
  • verb transitive forget to lose (facts, knowledge, etc.) from the mind; fail to recall; be unable to remember 0
  • verb transitive forget to fail to do, bring, etc. as because of carelessness; overlook, omit, or neglect unintentionally 0
  • verb transitive forget to overlook, omit, or neglect intentionally 0
  • intransitive verb forget to forget things; be forgetful 0
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