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Definition of "neglected" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of neglect. (verb)
  • Suffering from neglect. (adjective)

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Use "neglected" in a sentence
  • "In office, Obama moved quickly to scale back what his aides had dubbed "Bush's war" and to shift the Pentagon's focus to Afghanistan and its border with Pakistan, which he called the neglected battleground in the fight against al Qaeda."
  • "In office, Mr Obama moved quickly to scale back what his aides had dubbed "Bush's war" and to shift the Pentagon's focus to Afghanistan and its border with Pakistan, which he called the neglected battleground in the fight against al Qaeda."
  • "Fogle told the Daily Politics he's campaigning for more research for what he calls neglected diseases like this one:"