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Definition of "forgo" []

  • To abstain from; relinquish: unwilling to forgo dessert. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "forgo" in a sentence
  • "In me all human knowledge dwells, the oracle of oracles, past, present, future I reveal or in oblivion's silence seal; What I can preserve can perish never, what I forgo is lost forever."
  • "If he'd handed in essays he might have learned to spell. "forgo"."
  • "It should be "forgo" (i.e. go without) not "forego" (i.e. go before)."