disremember

English

Etymology

From dis- + remember.

Pronunciation

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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