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US
/fɔɹˈɡoʊ/
]
[ UK /fˈɔːɡəʊ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːɡəʊ/ ]
VERB
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lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
forfeited property
you've forfeited your right to name your successor -
do without or cease to hold or adhere to
We are dispensing with formalities
relinquish the old ideas -
be earlier in time; go back further
Stone tools precede bronze tools
How To Use forgo In A Sentence
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- (Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.") Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
- Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
- If your next record's a bit iffy, you're forgotten.
- When writing, she is totally absorbed in the book and on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion, her sons returned from school ravenous to find she had shoved a pair of muddy shoes in the oven for their tea! Diana Wynne Jones biography
- He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.
- I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
- The time is nigh for the resurrection of these long-forgotten principles.
- Oh I forgot, the nice man intimidated her into signing the car documents over to him.
- Forgotten skills include bleeding radiators and servicing a car. The Sun
