Definition of forget in English:

verbforgets, forgetting, forgot, forgotten

• 1Fail to remember.

  ‘he had forgotten his lines’

  with clause ‘she had completely forgotten how hungry she was’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I found myself mixing up my lines, or forgetting them completely.’
  • ‘As we listen to his wonderful gab, we should remember what he sometimes forgot or failed to say.’
  • ‘I recently picked the thing up again and surprised myself by remembering most of the chords, but completely forgetting their names.’
  • ‘I've now remembered that I've forgotten something else, but I can live without it.’
  • ‘Mary has 18 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren and she says she has an awful lot of birthdays to remember but she never forgets any of them.’
  • ‘No one who lived through that period can have forgotten it or failed to carry its images in their mind.’
  • ‘Often blood was drawn but without malice, just an accident, like an actor forgetting his lines because he's trying too hard to remember.’
  • ‘Most of the time this meant that she forgot my name and remembered to give her manicurist a lovely tip.’
  • ‘He blocks shots with abandon - completely forgetting the scary incident a few years back when a puck hit him in the chest, musing him to collapse.’
  • ‘The story is an allegory of the Cultural Revolution, and deals with remembering and forgetting the traumatic events of the Maoist era.’
  • ‘I'm sure, in retrospect, that it was a case of remembering the hits and forgetting the misses.’
  • ‘A person either remembers these voices or forgets them.’
  • ‘Soon he forgets the article and remembers only Dominique; he gathers sketches so he can go into the office where she is, but thinks better of it.’
  • ‘Not being pressed to come up with arguments or evidence to support them, one forgets the arguments and fails to obtain the evidence.’
  • ‘Ask me again in two weeks - I'll either have forgotten it completely, or it will behaunting me.’
  • ‘By the time you go back in the afternoon some of these people have completely forgotten the cameras are there.’
  • ‘I was in one of my dancing moods and completely forgot his distaste for mustard.’
  • ‘It smelled delicious and made us forget the preceding conversation completely.’
  • ‘I am crossing fingers that I won't completely forget everything when it goes live!’
  • ‘Neither are unreliable to the point of forgetting an appointment completely.’

  Synonyms

  fail to remember, fail to recall, fail to think of, let slip

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  1. 1.1Inadvertently neglect to do, bring, or mention something.
     ‘I forgot my raincoat’
     with infinitive ‘she forgot to lock her door’
     no object ‘I'm sorry, I just forgot’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Ross may simply have forgotten to mention this, but it is the fact that there is no legal penalty that beggars belief.’
     • ‘He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.’
     • ‘John, you also forgot to mention their dastardly plans to bomb women and children in yet more state sponsored terror.’
     • ‘Oh yeah I forgot to mention that I got my University acceptance, final and complete, in the mail today.’
     • ‘I think I forgot to mention that Saturday my family was supposed to have a little gathering around a barbecue pit.’
     • ‘But he forgot to mention the shadow which is naturally cast by any object standing in the light, whether or not it is visible to our eyes.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention a conversation I had with Adam while we were watching the Opening Ceremony.’
     • ‘Amidst my ranting I forgot to mention why I posted the previous blog.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention something which happened a couple of days ago.’
     • ‘Kane apparently forgot to mention that he too had been drinking.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention that LAX is the craziest airport that I have ever visited.’
     • ‘Somehow they forgot to mention that we share nearly as high a percentage of genes with chimpanzees.’
     • ‘In the tumult of today, I forgot to mention my lovely night out yesterday.’
     • ‘One nice thing I forgot to mention was the bottle of champagne I won in the raffle.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention earlier that my amazement at the proliferation of wireless networks continues.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention the corporatization and control of the music industry and radio.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention on Wednesday that I'd harvested my first sprouting broccoli.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention when talking about Oscar that he had his 15 minutes of fame.’
     • ‘I forgot to mention that Joy is one of the best blog writers I've come across.’
     • ‘This is something that they forgot to mention right at the start, in the opening meeting.’
     • ‘It looks to me like someone on his staff forgot to bring the right suitcase.’
     • ‘This works particularly well if your humans have forgotten to bring a plastic bag.’
     • ‘Pulling the shower curtains away I realized I had forgot to bring in my clothes.’
     • ‘It's also very possible that sometimes Max forgot to bring the records home and they got tossed out.’
     • ‘I had just started preparing the hot tube for a bath when I saw I had forgot to bring my toothpaste.’
     • ‘I forgot to bring my bathing suit, so I had to wear a pair of Dylan's shorts, and I wore my top.’
     • ‘She almost forgot to bring her cell phone at the top of the kitchen counter but luckily she remembered it.’
     • ‘Actually, the drummer was intending to record it and forgot to bring his tape machine.’
     • ‘They ran to the trunk and popped it open, to find 2 other bags that they forgot to bring in.’
     Synonyms

     neglect, fail, omit, not remember

     leave behind, omit to take, overlook, lose track of, mislay, misplace, lose

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  2. 1.2Deliberately cease to think of.
     ‘forget all this romantic stuff’
     no object ‘for years she had struggled to forget about him’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Some might hide and forget about it, there are some who might even run from it and try to make a new life, forgetting the past like it never existed.’
     • ‘That crisis of civilizational morale, in turn, helps explain why European man is deliberately forgetting his history.’
     • ‘Either buy the girl her superstructure out of the goodness of your heart or forget about it.’
     • ‘We should forget about the Government, forget about the doctor and think about the patient.’
     • ‘If the Democrats preselect this dud, they can forget about trying to regain credibility.’
     • ‘They're not kidding themselves about their age, but ice hockey lets them forget about it for a couple of hours each week.’
     • ‘If you get to 30 and you're single, forget about it, you're one of life's singles.’
     • ‘When push comes to shove, you just forget about it - it's just not worth the heartache.’
     • ‘A couple of great events are coming up in the next two months to help us forget about all the snow earlier this week.’
     • ‘He advised people with dogs to forget about exercise in the excessive heat and to make sure there was plenty of shade and cool water.’
     • ‘The players and management can go home and forget about it, we have to live with the trauma of possible relegation every day.’
     • ‘Now I can forget about it until early April, when the actual paper itself is due.’
     • ‘Then you might as well forget about walking to the traffic lights and just jaywalk in the middle of the street.’
     • ‘And on the other hand I don't want him to call me, because it would be so much easier to forget about him that way.’
     • ‘Add the rice and two cups of water, cover the pot, and turn the heat down low enough for you to forget about it for a while.’
     • ‘The view out the front through the large windscreen is good, but forget about seeing the bonnet.’
     • ‘Anyone in his position would have wanted to completely forget about his escape from the long arm of the law.’
     • ‘Now in its eighth year, World Book Day encourages children to forget about technology and to get back to basics.’
     • ‘That's where dishes you can pop in the oven and forget about come in.’
     • ‘I know there are the people who will say just forget about it, it's not worth it.’
     Synonyms

     stop thinking about, think no more of, cease to think of, cease to remember, put out of one's mind, shut out, blank out, pay no heed to, not worry about, ignore, overlook, never mind, take no notice of, banish from one's thoughts, put away, get over, set aside, lay aside, pass over, abandon, have done with, drop, disregard, brush off, shrug off

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  3. 1.3forget oneselfNeglect to behave in an appropriate way.
     ‘‘I'm sorry, Cassie. I forget myself’’
     More example sentences

     • ‘They either remember my game playing as a child and avoid the issue or I'm too embarrassed to ask them just in case I forget myself and slam a door when I lose…’
     • ‘If I forget myself even for a second and let myself down I know there'll be people who'll jump on that.’
     • ‘For a second you forgot yourself and kissed me back.’
     • ‘He's getting all the plaudits for walking, but what actually happened was that he forgot himself and started to move.’
     • ‘Temporarily forgetting himself, Cannington was now leaning across the desk staring at Robert King.’
     • ‘‘One silly girl can't make all that difference, Francis,’ Eleanor dismissed, ‘You forget yourself!’’
     • ‘Not that we have many guests, mind you, but it doesn't do to forget yourself, does it?’
     • ‘So if you momentarily forget yourself and somehow fail to legitimately acquire rights, don't worry, because they can vape that inauthentic content instantly, and you'll be clean again.’
     • ‘Yet she will soon forget herself and mess up if she has not done so already.’
     • ‘Indeed, they maintain an impressive dignity when the audience forgets itself and shakes with laughter.’
     • ‘When Joe appears, she forgets herself and jumps to her feet, dropping the blanket and exposing her condition.’
     Synonyms

     act improperly, misbehave, do wrong, go wrong, behave badly, be misbehaved, misconduct oneself, be bad, be naughty, get up to mischief, get up to no good, act up, cause someone trouble, give someone trouble

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