Meaning of forget | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To lose remembrance of.
   transitive
2. To lose one's reserve, temper, or self-restraint.
3. To unintentionally not do, neglect.
   transitive
4. forget oneself, to say or do something improper.
5. To unintentionally leave something behind.
   transitive
6. To fail to remember:Informal: disremember.
   Informal:
7. To cease remembering.
   intransitive
8. often forgetting. She is a very forgetful person. vergeetagtig كَثير النِسْيان разсеян esquecido zapomnětlivý vergeßlich glemsom ξεχασιάρηςdespistado, olvidadizo kehva mäluga فراموشکار huonomuistinen étourdi, négligentשכחן भुलक्कड़ zaboravan feledékeny pelupa gleyminn di poca memoria 忘れっぽい 잘 잊는 užmaršus aizmāršīgs pelupa vergeetachtigglemsk, glemsomzapominalski بې توجه، بې پامه، هېرجن esquecido uituc забывчивый zábudlivý pozabljiv zaboravan glömsk ขี้ลืม unutkan 健忘的 забудькуватий; безпам'ятни...
9. To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
   broadly, informal, transitive
10. vergeetagtige مُتناسِيا، بِنِسْيان разсеяно distraidamente zapomnětlivě vergeßlich glemsomt ξεχνώντας συνεχώς despistadamente, distraídamente hooletult با بی دقتی huonomuistisesti dans un moment d'étourderie מִתוֹך שִׁכחָה भुलक्कड़पन से zaboravno lalai gleymskulega, gálaust distrattamente 忘れっぽく 잘 잊어 per užmarštį aizmāršīgi pelupa vergeetachtigglemsk, glemsomt przez zapomnienie بې توجه distraidamente într-un moment de ză­pă­ceală забывчиво zábudlivo zaboravno glömskt, försumligt อย่างขี้ลืม un...
11. Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
    slang
12. vi. olvidar; olvidarse de;___ it → olvídese, olvídate de eso; no se preocupe, no te preocupes.
13. To be unable to remember (something).
14. To treat with thoughtless inattention; neglect: forget one's family.
15. To leave behind unintentionally.
16. To fail to mention.

Equivalents

Examples

“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,[…]”

“Everybody, old and young, laughs uproariously at this and immediately forgets all about it.”

“Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.”

“In conditions of unlimited global-digital 'web-memory' (labelled by one critic a 'globital age'), social remembering and forgetting have become functions of algorithm-based search technologies that mine data from users […]”

“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.”

“I forgot my car keys in the living room.”

“Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.”

“He forgot having already visited this city.”

“People forget how much work goes into what we do.”

“Forget you!”

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