Definitions
be unable to remember
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.”
“Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder,[…]”
“Everybody, old and young, laughs uproariously at this and immediately forgets all about it.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Fail to remember”6 letters
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