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Forgo   /fɔrgˈoʊ/   Listen
Forgo

verb
(past forwent; past part. forgone; pres. part. forgoing)
1.
Do without or cease to hold or adhere to.  Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive.  "Relinquish the old ideas"
2.
Be earlier in time; go back further.  Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate.
3.
Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime.  Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive.  "Forfeited property"






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"Forgo" Quotes from Famous Books



... But it wasn't. It was commercial transaction to which you gave your approval. It may be morally wrong to keep you, but the whole darned frame-up was morally wrong. So morals don't come into it—savvy? Legally I got a claim to my—goods, and you're asking me to forgo that claim. But you don't show much regret at taking a ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild

... been pleasant; in winter quite the contrary, even when the cloister and carrells were screened, as at Durham and Christ Church, Canterbury. Imagine the poor scribe rubbing his hands to restore the sluggish circulation, and being at last compelled to forgo his labour because they were too numbed to write. Cuthbert, the eighth-century abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, writes to a correspondent telling him he had not been able to send all Bede's works which were required, because the cold weather of the preceding winter had paralysed the ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage

... ceded to France along with the other Comoros in 1843. It was the only island in the archipelago that voted in 1974 to retain its link with France and forgo independence. ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



Words linked to "Forgo" :   abandon, kick, lapse, claim, postdate, relinquish, give up



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