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Forgo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To abstain from; relinquish: unwilling to forgo dessert.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To let pass, to leave alone

v. To do without, to abandon

v. To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To pass by; to leave. See 1st forego.

v. to abstain from; to do without; to refrain from; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated. See 1st forego, 2.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To go or pass by without claiming; forbear to possess, use, or do; voluntarily avoid or give up; renounce; resign.

To quit; leave.

Synonyms To yield, relinquish, let go.

A Middle English form of forego.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to

v. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

v. be earlier in time; go back further

Word Usage

"In me all human knowledge dwells, the oracle of oracles, past, present, future I reveal or in oblivion's silence seal; What I can preserve can perish never, what I forgo is lost forever."

Antonym

keep

Verb Form

forgoes forgoing forgone forwent

Variant

forwent forgone

Hyponym

kick give up

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

abandon forbear remit

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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