neglecting

Verb

neglect (third-person singular simple present neglects, present participle neglecting, simple past and past participle neglected)

1. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
   • to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts

   Synonyms:

   let slide

2. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
   • to neglect strangers

   Synonyms:

   disregard

3. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
   • A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, in Life, volume 73, number 25, page 22

   Synonyms:

   fail, forget

4. (transitive) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
   • We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway.

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