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FORGOTTEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not noticed inadvertently
Example:
he was scolded for his forgotten chores
Synonyms:
disregarded; forgotten
Classified under:
Similar:
unnoticed (not noticed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb forget
Context examples:
And with a quivering lip he wound up the whole by adding, "Poor Fanny! she would not have forgotten him so soon!"
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The sled- dogs had forgotten his prowess.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Buck, to whom fair play was a forgotten code, likewise sprang upon Spitz.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Oh yes! they, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I have not forgotten it, I assure you.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I had totally forgotten him. My dear Watson, I owe you a thousand apologies.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Hark hither, Alleyne! it cannot be that you have forgotten little Tita, the daughter of the old glass-stainer at Bordeaux?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Indeed," answered Elinor, "I have NOT forgotten it."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
My oak trees may fight those rascals over the water when I am long forgotten.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
