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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forgo
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
interest
▪ If they were wrong about that, they agreed that there was no consideration for a promise to forgo the interest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Council members were asked to forgo their pay raises.
▪ Novices were expected to forgo all earthly pleasures and concentrate on the hereafter.
▪ Senior board members have offered to forgo their annual bonuses this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Instead, they will forgo either career or motherhood.
▪ One is that devout patients may forgo treatment and wait for divine intervention.
▪ Poverty made mere housing a luxury; and poverty forced families to forgo kindergartens and higher education for their children.
▪ The word foresee takes an e in the middle, but you can write either forgo or forego.
▪ They take Missy on walks through cities and wilderness areas and have learned to forgo restaurant meals for picnics and room service.
▪ Who would forgo the chance of a winter in Rome, the centre of things?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgo

Forgo \For*go"\, v. t. [imp. Forwent; p. p. Forgone; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgoing.] [OE. forgan, forgon, forgoon, AS. forg[=a]n, prop., to go past, hence, to abstain from; pref. for- + g[=a]n to go; akin to G. vergehen to pass away, to transgress. See Go, v. i.]

  1. To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.

    For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request.
    --Chaucer.

    And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent.
    --Spenser.

  2. 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.

    Note: This word in spelling has been confused with, and almost superseded by, forego to go before. Etymologically the form forgo is correct.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forgo

"refrain from," Old English forgan "abstain from, leave undone, neglect," also "go or pass over, go away," from for- "away" + gan "go" (see go (v.)). Often, but less properly, forego. Related: Forgoing; forgone.\n

Wiktionary
forgo

vb. 1 To let pass, to leave alone 2 To do without, to abandon 3 To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

WordNet
forgo

  1. v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" [syn: waive, relinquish, foreswear, dispense with]

  2. lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime [syn: forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive] [ant: claim]

  3. refrain from consuming; "You will have to forgo alcohol" [syn: give up]

  4. [also: forwent, forgone]

Usage examples of "forgo".

For surely, if I remain unhoused, and forgo life in Arda, then his Doom will be inviolate.

If we could forgo the costs of a major invasion by relying on a revitalized containment program that we could be confident would last for many more years, there would be a strong case for doing so.

Some of the more conscientious of the delegation forwent the vodka, but neither Marlowe, Winston, nor John Single Cloud were among their number.

So he forwent any notions of complaint and consoled himself with the thought that at least he had a roof over his head and need not daily face the problem of accommodation.

Now they resided in Tomas, but he still felt somehow lessened when he forwent the gold-and-white armor.

She left the pearls in place, changed back into the black high-heeled shoes, once more retouched her hair and makeup, forwent another dab of scent and then, as she opened the door, gave out a shriek of terror.

Ashe and Grunthor, determining that to be too long, forwent any troop accompaniment, preferring to rely on their natural or ingrained abilities to go without sleep for extended periods and the well-supplied mail route along the trans-Orlandan thoroughfare, where fresh horses could be had every eighty leagues.

Daffyd had several slabs of the dried beef and a warm sour ale that Anna forwent in favor of a vinegary red wine.

Since his escort looked eager for a pretext to set upon me with fists and feet, I forwent argument, promising to pay ere I began practice.

Stryder even forwent his plans to stay away from her while they looked into the truth of what had happened to Elizabeth.

Pamitar of these things, but there was no proper way to express them, and she seemed not to understand, unless she understood and did not know it, for her manner grew agitated, so that he soon forwent questioning, and turned to the parapatterner to hide his unease.

December of 1620 and their feast nearly a year later, the Pilgrims undoubtedly ate wild turkey, even if they forwent the large gallinaceous fowl at the famous feast itself.

Now they resided in Tomas, but he still felt somehow lessened when he forwent the gold and white armour.

Deborah was the upstanding, reliable one who forwent her own feelings for the sake of her family.

Others, less fortunate and much sadder men, see inf mity and, awed or frightened, rby away and force their eyes to the ground beneath their feet,,condemned forever to forgo much of the beauty and joy that surrounds them every day.