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Definition of "forgotten" []

  • A past participle of forget. (verb)

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 "forgotten" in a sentence
  • "To prove to you that I had not forgotten you before your letter came, here is the fragment of an unfinished one which I send you, to begin with -- an imperfect fossil letter, which no comparative anatomy will bring much sense out of -- except the plain fact _that you were not forgotten_ ...."
  • ""I have never forgotten -- never -- never _forgotten_!" faltered Madeleine, in a voice that had a sound of tears, answering to those that glittered in her eyes."
  • "For this world, warm in the middle and my name forgotten, I have to run and give these daffodil prisms to the poor that I took from the dead."