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forget

verb
/fəˈɡɛt/UK/fɚˈɡɛt/US

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”).

  1. inherited from *fragetan✻
  2. inherited from forġietan
  3. inherited from forgeten

Definitions

  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?

  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. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To cease remembering.

      • Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.
      • He forgot having already visited this city.

    2. To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).

      • People forget how much work goes into what we do.

    3. Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).

      • Forget you!

    4. A surname.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at forget. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01forget02unintentionally03unintentional04unwitting05unaware06oblivious07forgetful

A definitional loop anchored at forget. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at forget

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA