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forgetting

/fer-get/US // fərˈgɛt //UK // (fəˈɡɛt) //

忘记了,忘记的,忘记,忘记了的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    for·got or for·gat [fer-gat]; /fərˈgæt/; for·got·ten [fer-got-n] /fərˈgɒt n/ or for·got; for·get·ting.

    • : to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
    • : to omit or neglect unintentionally: I forgot to shut the window before leaving.
    • : to leave behind unintentionally; neglect to take: to forget one's keys.
    • : to omit mentioning; leave unnoticed.
    • : to fail to think of; take no note of.
    • : to neglect willfully; disregard or slight.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    for·got or for·gat [fer-gat]; /fərˈgæt/; for·got·ten [fer-got-n] /fərˈgɒt n/ or for·got; for·get·ting.

    • : to cease or omit to think of something.

Phrases

  • forget it
  • forget oneself
  • forgive and forget

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Examples

  • Tagovailoa is making it easy to forget his mere presence is an accomplishment.

  • It’s easy to forget that everyone is still prey to all the normal ills of life — in addition to the coronavirus.

  • Congratulations if you can keep a straight face while answering, “I’m so sorry, but I’m no longer available, I just forgot to take down my profile.”

  • Refrigerator water filters“When you’re used to simply walking over to the fridge to fill up a glass of water, it’s easy to forget that there’s a filter in there that will need to be changed,” Berliet says.

  • “Valhalla” treads familiar ground, but with greater ambition and without forgetting its past.

  • Again, forgetting about the owners and everything they did, I was in love with The Source.

  • It begins with forgetting lines in lectures and losing track of where she is on a jog, and gets worse.

  • But there is a way to trick yourself into forgetting all that.

  • The recent Superman and Batman film franchises have both suffered for forgetting this.

  • And so here we are again, in the land of conservative forgetting.

  • We got off our horses and stooped over the man, forgetting for the moment that danger might lurk in the surrounding thicket.

  • There, amid the deep silence of the listening centuries, he would find peace; forgetting himself a moment, he might find—strength.

  • And then at last the man himself took to forgetting the imaginary writer and poured out words of love, warm, true, and passionate.

  • Gwynne had exclaimed, in agony, and forgetting the awful figure on the bed in his alarm at the sight of his grandfather's face.

  • He had been momentarily forgetting care; was speaking gaily to his wife as they entered.