forget

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To not be able to remember something.

   I have forgotten most of what I learned at school.

2. 2
   verb

   To fail to do something you meant to do.

   I forgot to buy milk on the way home.

3. 3
   verb

   To leave something behind by accident.

   I forgot my keys in the living room.

4. 4
   verb

   To stop thinking about something or put it out of your mind.

   Let's just forget the whole argument.

Common collocations

• forget a birthday Verb + noun

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”).

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