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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forgot
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clean forgot (=completely forgot)
▪ Sorry, I clean forgot your birthday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A yawn unsuccessfully stifled, I forgot the rest of the sentence.
▪ Asik was astonished, he forgot about his hiding place behind the tree and jumped into the road.
▪ Even then the leader of the great trek and the Latter-day kingdom never forgot the source of his inspiration.
▪ He kissed her, and they both forgot the scripts.
▪ He never forgot the incident with the owl.
▪ I forgot to say take out the bay leaf before it sets.
▪ Occupied with morning rituals, she nearly forgot the night's distress.
▪ You forgot to cover up the Anglia Television badge on the front end!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgot

Forget \For*get"\, v. t. [imp. Forgot( Forgat, Obs.); p. p. Forgotten, Forgot; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgetting.] [OE. forgeten, foryeten, AS. forgietan, forgitan; pref. for- + gietan, gitan (only in comp.), to get; cf. D. vergeten, G. vergessen, Sw. f["o]rg["a]ta, Dan. forgiette. See For-, and Get, v. t.]

  1. 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.

    Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
    --Ps. ciii.

  2. Let my right hand forget her cunning. --Ps. cxxxvii. 5. Hath thy knee forget to bow? --Shak. 2. To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect. Can a woman forget her sucking child? . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. --Is. xlix. 15. To forget one's self.

    1. To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought.

    2. To be entirely unselfish.

    3. To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

Forgot

Forgot \For*got"\, imp. & p. p. of Forget.

Wiktionary
forgot

vb. (en-simple past of: forget)

WordNet
forgot

See forget

forget

  1. v. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories" [syn: bury] [ant: remember]

  2. be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!" [syn: block, blank out, draw a blank] [ant: remember]

  3. forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" [ant: mind]

  4. leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors" [syn: leave]

  5. [also: forgotten, forgot, forgetting]

Usage examples of "forgot".

He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by its aurochs-hide thong at his hip, as I forgot, for the moment, the dagger in my hand.

Yet I so worried and fretted about her and her future that at last I quite forgot my own predicament, though I still struggled intermittently with bonds in vain endeavor to free myself.