to disremember
- verb
- /ˌdɪs.rɪˈmɛm.bər/
- Archaic
- I disremember who wrote it.
Examples
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Sometimes, I disremember appointments that I had scheduled weeks ago.
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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.
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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.
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It's easy to disremember small details when you're busy with other things.
Synonyms
Not remember something you should remember
Do not remember something at all
To not remember something at all
Antonyms
How Well Remembered
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.