Choose the perfect synonym or antonym for the word To fail to remember something that was previously learned or known.
Forget
/fəˈɡet/Synonyms:
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Examples:
'I would forgotten, sir.
I brought it for you - almost forgot it.
But I was forgetting: you know all about God, I suppose.'
Etymology:
Derived from Old English forgietan, meaning to lose the power of recalling ones memory, compounded from for- (prefix expressing prohibition, exclusion, expulsion) + gietan' (to grasp or obtain).
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