forget
verbtop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//fəˈɡɛt//
- United States//fɚˈɡɛt//
To lose remembrance of.
verb
- 1
To lose remembrance of.
I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder,[…]
- 2
To unintentionally not do, neglect.
I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
Pray, thou, therefore, to Slid, and forget not Slid, and it may be that Slid will not forget to send thee Death when most thou needest it.
- 3
To unintentionally leave something behind.
I forgot my car keys in the living room.
- 4
To cease remembering.
Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.
He forgot having already visited this city.
- 5
informalTo not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
People forget how much work goes into what we do.
- 6
slangEuphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
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”).
Forms
- past tense
- forgot, forgat
- past participle
- forgotten, forgot
- present participle
- forgetting
- third person singular
- forgets