Definitions for forget

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forget for·get

Spelling: [fer-get]

IPA: /fərˈgɛt/

Forget is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in forget (efgort).

Definitions for forget

Idioms

1. forget oneself, to say or do something improper or unbefitting one's rank, position, or character.

verb (used with object)

1. to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall:
2. to omit or neglect unintentionally:
3. to leave behind unintentionally; neglect to take:
4. to omit mentioning; leave unnoticed.
5. to fail to think of; take no note of.
6. to neglect willfully; disregard or slight.

verb (used without object)

1. to cease or omit to think of something.

Origin of forget

before 900; for- + get; replacing Middle English foryeten, Old English forg(i)etan; cognate with Old Saxon fargetan, Old High German firgezzan

Examples for forget

"I should like to forget that you are my nephew," said the old man.

And you forget that—that devil—suppose she's as good as her threat?

And it often travels so lightly that you can forget you are clothed in its benefits.

They had talked afterward so feverishly, as if to forget their situation.

forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”

All your frien's may forget you, but Deff 'll nebber forget you.

The past slid from him so easily, he forgot even to try to forget.

And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.

But for those on the Israeli right who are hoping that this deferred dream will just fade away, they can forget it.

If we go another year without doing one people will just forget what it was.