(v. t.) To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
(v. t.) To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(2) When tested 4 weeks later, they showed significant forgetting.
(3) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.
(4) All freedom-loving people will miss him, but we will never forget his sacrifice and his achievements."
(5) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
(6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
(7) "We have vowed to never forget and we never will," he said.
(8) Seethetree Kingley Vale, Sussex Forget the colours of autumn; this place is sombre in colour and atmosphere but you will be walking among probably the oldest living organisms in Britain.
(9) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
(10) Also, if you want to press vinyl, forget it – leading up to this day all of the pressing plants are booked.
(11) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
(12) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
(13) Forget about the infants' milk, only lucky children can get it.
(14) Effectiveness of the neuropharmacological actions improving the memory forgotten trace retrieval is shown to depend upon the duration of the spontaneous forgetting process.
(15) The first symptom of the younger brother (case 2) was also forgetfulness at 45 years old, then severe dementia was advanced, at last he died of pneumonia at age 53 old.
(16) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
(17) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
(18) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
(19) Deliberate forgetting Wouldn't it be useful if our minds had their own refuse collection service – a way of selectively depositing those memories we no longer require while keeping hold of those that we do?
(20) Obama acknowledged he had read an article "in the news just the other day wondering has Washington missed its opportunity, because as time goes on after Newtown, somehow people start moving on and forgetting" This was not the case, he said.
Misplace
Definition:
(v. t.) To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several extrastriate areas have been found to contain maps of the contralateral visual hemifield that are disorderly in the sense that the representation of various parts of the visual field are often misplaced or grossly over-or under-represented.
(2) The attempt by the IPCC to explain away its failure to interview officers due to a lack of power is misplaced: it is in fact simply due to of a lack of will.
(3) Two of the six cases showed pseudoinvasion of the appendix and in a further case the appendix had perforated with extrusion of a misplaced neoplasm.
(4) This also shows that there is no great measure of misplacement on the basis of the current norm, although the suitability of this norm in sheltered housing is open to question.
(5) Disoriented by the early goal, they waged a frantic war in the middle of the pitch, exchanging misplaced passes.
(7) We conclude that a misplaced chest tube compressing the right ventricle can impede cardiac output and lead to a low cardiac output state.
(8) In one patient, the catheter was misplaced in the right atrium, one patient developed pyopericardium and one patient developed transient tachycardia.
(9) It may also be timely to appear more serious, seeing as Paddy seems to have misplaced its sense of humour of late, Betfair never had one in the first place, and rivals trying to emulate the old Paddy-style jokes look very tired.
(10) This case shows that abdominal and pelvic x-ray examinations may not adequately show a misplaced IUD in a gravid woman, and further workup is necessary after delivery if the IUD is not clearly visible on the initial x-ray films.
(11) Early expectations that Coulson might help Cameron to win over Murdoch, who has publicly questioned his credentials as a future prime minister, may have been misplaced.
(12) A demoralised workforce performs less efficiently, and a less-efficient system can be broken up and sold to private firms.” The Department of Heath insists these fears are misplaced.
(13) The Oklahoma prison admitted that the drugs and IV fluid “infiltrated” and “extravasated” into the tissues of Lockett’s groin because of the misplaced catheter, and that is why the execution was prolonged and botched.
(14) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(15) Fine-bore tubes are easily misplaced or dislodged; ensure correct positioning both before and during feeding.
(16) Indeed, the thousands signing up to membership in recent days suggest that my optimism is not misplaced.
(17) Its correlate among ganglion cells backfilled from tectum is apparently a very sparse population of small-bodied cells mixed with a variable population of misplaced ganglion cells of varying size and type.
(18) Eva Zhong, the head of exports for a fireworks manufacturer in Hunan province, said that the government's fireworks warnings were misplaced.
(19) Nothing will happen soon, and London’s optimism is almost certainly misplaced.
(20) He concludes: "If journalists, for reasons of nostalgia, inertia, confusion or misplaced loyalty, choose to keep swimming with the privacy intruders, they may well drown with them."