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disremembering

disremembering is the present participle and gerund of disremember.

Meaning of disremember

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

Questions about disremembering

What is disremembering the present participle and gerund of?
Disremembering is the present participle and gerund of disremember.

Words near disremembering in the dictionary

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

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