(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.
Unforgettable
Definition:
(a.) Not forgettable; enduring in memory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
(2) It had the better of ITV1 documentary repeat The Unforgettable... Bob Monkhouse, which had 2.886 million viewers, a 12% share, but just lost out to the last of ITV1 three-part drama Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, which had 4.7 million, of whom 162,000 were watching on ITV1 HD, an 18.4% share.
(3) Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival , said today, "We are profoundly grateful to Claudio Abbado for all the magnificent, unforgettable, and indescribable experiences that he gave us in the past 47 years.
(4) The nations with the highest recorded levels include Colombia, Uganda, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, with the south Asian countries in particular producing unforgettable images of disfigured women who have been assaulted with acid because they have rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals, or aroused jealousy, or in some way or other inconvenienced the patriarchy and aroused its ire.
(5) One can hypothesize that the composer's brain disease, which led to his psychosis and death, may have had an influence on his ability to create the powerful and unforgettable scenes of psychosis in his operas.
(6) Juve replied with a brace of their own, both by the man who would become Ranieri's predecessor at Chelsea, Vialli, then an unforgettable late winner from a teenaged wunderkind called Del Piero.
(7) "Recording them was an unforgettable experience," he says.
(8) According to Farrow, who was one of several high-profile guests at Mandela's now infamous Cape Town dinner party, Campbell had said over breakfast the next morning that she had "an unforgettable story" to tell.
(9) I've had the tremendous pleasure of working very closely with Alex for 16 unforgettable years – through the Treble, the double, countless trophy wins and numerous signings.
(10) He will return as BBC royalty to the continent on which he first announced himself at Mexico 86, scoring a hat-trick against Poland in Monterrey and going on to duke it out with Diego Maradona in an unforgettable quarter-final in Mexico City.
(11) I have had three unforgettable years here that I don’t want to analyse in this moment.
(12) Empson, unforgettable as wisecracking Jamaican gossip Mrs Aphrodite in the Theatre Royal ska musical The Big Life in 2004, is mouthwatering casting as the Queen.
(13) "Unforgettable is, unfortunately, not the word," Jack Tinker wrote in the Daily Mail.
(14) The zoo says the Gorilla Kingdom ensures unforgettable encounters with the apes.
(15) Washington DC is the only Tussauds to feature a gallery of all 44 US presidents, which opened last week, while Tussauds in Las Vegas features the only topless figure (former porn star Jenna Jameson) and the unforgettable opportunity to bounce on a bed with a stiff Hugh Hefner.
(16) Real Madrid won the European Cup for the ninth time here last night and, if their performance in beating Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 did little to blur the unforgettable images of their 1960 triumph at Hampden, the supreme moment of this success will rank with the best in European Cup history.
(17) The Liverpool manager evoked memories of Istanbul at half-time in the second leg, with his team trailing 2-0 and then 3-1 before sealing an unforgettable victory in stoppage time.
(18) With a final prediction of blustery showers and sunny periods, Britain's champion weather forecaster headed off last night to earn retirement money from his one, unforgettable, gaffe.
(19) It is probably inevitable, therefore, that the question that has been heard most at Spain's media events has been of how Del Bosque's men will acclimatise to the different pressures that accompany no longer being merely dark horses but the team that is expected to prick our senses, play the most unforgettable football, put on a peacock-like spreading of feathers.
(20) You’ll come back from an unforgettable day windblown and wet but exhilarated.