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Definition of Forgo
1. Verb. Do without or cease to hold or adhere to. "Relinquish the old ideas"
Specialized synonyms: Give Up, Kick
Derivative terms: Waiver
2. Verb. Be earlier in time; go back further. "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
Derivative terms: Antecedence, Antecedency, Antecedent, Precedence, Precedency, Precedent, Precedent, Precession
Antonyms: Postdate
3. Verb. Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime. "Forfeited property"
Generic synonyms: Abandon
Specialized synonyms: Lapse
Antonyms: Claim
Derivative terms: Forfeit, Forfeit, Forfeit, Forfeiture, Forfeiture, Forfeiture, Waiver
Definition of Forgo
1. v. t. To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
Definition of Forgo
1. Verb. To let pass, to leave alone ¹
2. Verb. To do without, to abandon ¹
3. Verb. To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forgo
1. to refrain from [v FORWENT, FORGONE, FORGOING, FORGOES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgo
Literary usage of Forgo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... me, Tran-in the proud imitation of Alexander the Great, forgo: »nd'per- ^e
serv'tu(le an<l ingratitude of his fathers to the house sb, of Seljuk. ..."
2. An Outline of French Law as Affecting British Subjects by John Thomas Beadsworth Sewell (1897)
"NOTE C. '(p- 49) Héritiers forgo c. l'Etat (Dalloz, 1875, 1. 343). ... mère naturelle
de François Xavier forgo, Bavarois d'origine, décédé à Pau, ..."
3. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"... Slake Trough,—The vessel which contains the water attached to a smith'i forgo
for cooling or quenching hot metals. Slaking. ..."
4. On English Adjectives in -able: With Special Reference to Reliable by Fitzedward Hall (1877)
"1 Such a thing we may readily ' permit the want of,' and then ' waive,' '
forgo,' 'lay aside,'2 'do without.' Thus, by easy grada- 1 According to ..."
5. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1888)
"... brought his young and beautiful wife to Valley forgo to cheer the encampment,
and in the battle of Monmouth, in the following summer, did good service. ..."
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