Meaning of disremember | Babel Free
/dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/Definitions
To fail to remember; to forget.
US, dialectal
Examples
““[…] and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend’s house, Miss What-you-may-call-her, I disremember her name, and they lost their steering-oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, […]”
““Why don’t you say some yourself?” the child asked, with wondering eyes. “I disremember them,” he answered.”
“she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’”
“Then there was the honest count straight through, next the side show with its pretence of "disrememberin'", or doubts as to the number - doubts never laid except by a double count.”
“"Take those things I sold yesterday. How much did you make on them?" "I couldn't say, dearie. I disremember what I paid for them," said Mrs Dibble evasively.”
“‘I got a idee he's maybe sniffin around after a sartin gal, and me'n John is wonderin if he aint complete disremembered that that gal belongs to John's boy.’”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.