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to disremember

to disremember

1 9.5
Fail to remember something you knew before
  • verb
  • /ˌdɪs.rɪˈmɛm.bər/
  • Archaic
: olvidar
  • I disremember who wrote it.

Examples

  • Sometimes, I disremember appointments that I had scheduled weeks ago.

  • And mostly what you disremember ain't worth the trouble to call it to mind. "I could get it back if I tried hard enough."

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I mean, to the point of making things up or disremembering?

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I disremember.

  • What I had disremembered was to phone Connie Garcia on Sunday as I had promised.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Now, she reads only American schlock pulp novels, romances—and she forgets, disremembers, she calls it.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • I often disremember where I put my keys before leaving the house.

  • It's easy to disremember small details when you're busy with other things.

Synonyms

to forget
vsto disremember
∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

is the same meaning but uses an alternate single word form
to totally forgot
vsto disremember
  • Informal
30 1.8

Do not remember something at all

is the same action but can be less complete in degree
to totes forget
vsto disremember
  • Informal
9.9

To not remember something at all

is the same idea but expressed in casual informal language

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

To think about something from the past

∞ 2.4

Remember something from the past

How Well Remembered

to remember
∞ 1.0
to recall
∞ 2.4
to disremember
  • Archaic
1 9.5

Surface Forms

disremember infinitive
disremembered past participle
disremembering present participle
disremembers third person singular

Morphology

disremember = remember (transparent) = dis + remember

The meaning is a straightforward negative formation from 'remember', meaning 'fail to remember' or 'forget'.

Etymology

Disremember comes from the beginning part dis- meaning 'not' and the familiar word remember. So it literally means 'not remember' or to forget, like when you cannot find your keys.