English dictionary and integrated thesaurus for learners, writers, teachers, and students with advanced, intermediate, and beginner levels. To be unable to remember a fact, something that happened, or how to do something: If you forget something or forget to do it, you fail to think about it or fail to remember to do it, for example, because you are thinking about other things.

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The meaning of forget is to lose the remembrance of : Be unable to think of or recall. How to use forget in a sentence. Synonym discussion of forget. To cease or fail to remember; Be unable to recall. See examples of forget used in a sentence.

To cease or fail to remember; Be unable to recall. See examples of forget used in a sentence. Both forgot and forgotten are used as the past participle of forget: Many have already forgot (or forgotten) the hard times of the depression. Only forgotten is used attributively:

Only forgotten is used attributively: