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disremember

UK/dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/US/dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/

disremember verb: to fail to remember; to forget.

Verb

disremember (third-person singular simple present disremembers, present participle disremembering, simple past and past participle disremembered)

  1. (dialectal) To fail to remember; to forget.
    • “[…] and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend’s house, Miss What-you-may-call-her, I disremember her name, and they lost their steering-oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, […]1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 114
    • “Why don’t you say some yourself?” the child asked, with wondering eyes. “I disremember them,” he answered.1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part II (The Country of the Saints), chapter I (On the Great Alkali Plain)...

Examples of disremember in a sentence

  • she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 70:
  • Then there was the honest count straight through, next the side show with its pretence of "disrememberin'", or doubts as to the number - doubts never laid except by a double count.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia...
  • —I disremember if it was October or November.1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
  • I disremember what I paid for them," said Mrs Dibble evasively.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 51:

Forms of disremember

third-person singular presentdisremembers
present participledisremembering
past participledisremembered
pastdisremembered

Origin of disremember

From dis- + remember.

Words that rhyme with disremember

Questions about disremember

What does disremember mean?
Disremember means to fail to remember; to forget.
How do you use disremember in a sentence?
she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’
What part of speech is disremember?
Disremember is a verb.
How do you pronounce disremember?
Disremember is pronounced /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/ (UK).
What is the past tense of disremember?
The past tense of disremember is disremembered.

Words near disremember in the dictionary

  1. disrelished
  2. disrelishes
  3. disrelisheth
  4. disrelishing
  5. disrelisht
  6. disremember
  7. disremembered
  8. disremembering
  9. disremembers
  10. disremembrance
  11. disrepair

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