disremember

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ remember.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)

Verb

disremember (third-person singular simple present disremembers, present participle disremembering, simple past and past participle disremembered)

  1. (chiefly US regional) To fail to remember; to forget.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 70:
      she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’
    • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
      ‘I got a idee he's maybe sniffin around after a sartin gal, and me'n John is wonderin if he aint complete disremembered that that gal belongs to John's boy.’

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