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unforget

Syllables: un·for·get/ʌnfəˈɡɛt/US/ʌnfɚˈɡɛt/

unforget verb: to not forget; also, to remember again after forgetting.

Verb

unforget (third-person singular simple present unforgets, present participle unforgetting, simple past unforgot, past participle unforgotten)

  1. (informal, transitive) To not forget; also, to remember again after forgetting.
    • I miss them all, for, unforgetting,
      My spirit o'er the past still strays,
      And, much its wasted years regretting,
      It treads again these shaded ways.1852 January, “A Stranger Here”, in The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, volume IV, London: James Nisbet and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VI, page 111
    • My sorrows seem but small and brief,—
      Soon softened into vague regretting;
      I find a balm in every leaf,
      Build ships on every wreck-strewn reef,
      Then blush before this marble Grief,
      Still unforgetting!1866, Elizabeth Akers [Allen], “My Peace”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 122

Examples of unforget in a sentence

  • She could make me forget Grack and Pittsburgh, and then perhaps even remember me enough to unforget them again.1956, Herbert Gold, chapter 13, in The Man Who Was Not With It […] (Second Edition Books), Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel...
  • What would happen, for instance, if I tried to unforget the whole series of accidental and contingent encounters through which I entered the dense landscape of the hills?1996, Kathleen Stewart, “Unforgetting: The Anecdotal and the Accidental”, in A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an...

Forms of unforget

third-person singular presentunforgets
present participleunforgetting
pastunforgot
past participleunforgotten
alternative formun-forget

Origin of unforget

From un- (prefix meaning ‘to do the opposite of, reverse (the action specified by the verb to which it is attached)’) + forget.

Words that rhyme with unforget

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Questions about unforget

What does unforget mean?
Unforget means to not forget; also, to remember again after forgetting.
How do you use unforget in a sentence?
She could make me forget Grack and Pittsburgh, and then perhaps even remember me enough to unforget them again.
What part of speech is unforget?
Unforget is a verb.
How do you pronounce unforget?
Unforget is pronounced /ʌnfəˈɡɛt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of unforget?
The past tense of unforget is unforgot.

Words near unforget in the dictionary

  1. unforgave
  2. unforgeability
  3. unforgeable
  4. unforgeably
  5. unforged
  6. unforget
  7. unforgetable
  8. unforgetableness
  9. unforgetful
  10. unforgetfulness
  11. unforgets

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