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forget oneself

forget oneself verb: to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

Verb

forget oneself (third-person singular simple present forgets oneself, present participle forgetting oneself, simple past forgot oneself, past participle forgotten oneself)

  1. (idiomatic) to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.
    • "Look'ee here, Pip," said he, laying his hand on my arm in a suddenly altered and subdued manner; "first of all, look'ee here. I forgot myself half a minute ago. What I said was low; that's what it was; low. […]1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
  2. To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought.

forget oneself meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

forget oneself in Malayalam

behave badly, misbehave, be naughty
തന്നത്താൻ മറക്കുക, നില മറക്കുക, തന്റെ നിലമറക്കുക, അപമര്യാദയായി പെരുമാറുക, ധിക്കാരം കാട്ടുക, തല മറക്കുക

forget oneself in Kannada

ಮೆಯ್ಮರೆ, ಮಯ್ಮರೆ

Forms of forget oneself

third-person singular presentforgets oneself
present participleforgetting oneself
pastforgot oneself
past participleforgotten oneself

Questions about forget oneself

What does forget oneself mean?
Forget oneself means to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.
What is forget oneself in Malayalam?
Forget oneself in Malayalam is തന്നത്താൻ മറക്കുക, നില മറക്കുക, തന്റെ നിലമറക്കുക. See Forget oneself meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is forget oneself?
Forget oneself is a verb.
What is the past tense of forget oneself?
The past tense of forget oneself is forgot oneself.

Words near forget oneself in the dictionary

  1. forget
  2. forget about
  3. forget about it
  4. forget it
  5. forget one's manners
  6. forget oneself
  7. forget to take one's medication this morning
  8. forget to take one's pills this morning
  9. forget you
  10. forget-me-not
  11. forget-me-nots

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: forget oneself (page history and authors); forget oneself (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); forget oneself (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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