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Forget   /fərgˈɛt/  /fɔrgˈɛt/   Listen
Forget

verb
(past forgot, obs. forgat; past part. forgotten, forgot; pres. part. forgetting)
1.
Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering.  Synonym: bury.  Antonym: remember.
2.
Be unable to remember.  Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank.  "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"  Antonym: remember.
3.
Forget to do something.  Antonym: mind.
4.
Leave behind unintentionally.  Synonym: leave.  "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"



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"Forget" Quotes from Famous Books



... I go hence, Do not forget the sign, your father's dagger, And do the business when I ...
— The Duchess of Padua • Oscar Wilde

... to delay my address until this evening. We paused together to mourn and honor the valor of our seven Challenger heroes. And I hope that we are now ready to do what they would want us to do: Go forward, America, and reach for the stars. We will never forget those brave seven, but we shall ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... it discretion, lords, to let this man, This good man,—few of you deserve that title,— This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy At chamber-door? and one as great as you are? Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye Power as he was a councillor to try him,— Not as a groom. There's some of ye, I see, More out of malice than integrity, Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean; Which ye shall never have while ...
— The Life of Henry VIII • William Shakespeare [Dunlap edition]

... the fact the New Witness could never forget. A Jew might not be specially pro-German in feeling, yet his actions might help Germany by being pro-Jewish. International Jewish trading was trading with the enemy and was to a very large extent continuing in spite of assurances to the ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... wonder then that the man with so simple a faith, so Christ-like a spirit, should not be greatly concerned by his wife's story of the night before. He did not absolutely forget it, for he pondered over it as he wended his way to the attic where the orphan Swifts lived. He felt sorry for Lottie as he thought of it, and he hoped she would soon cease to have such uncharitable ideas of her half-brothers; he himself could not even entertain the notion that any fraud ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade


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