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to disremember

to disremember

1 9.9
Choose not to remember something painful
  • verb
  • /ˌdɪs.rɪˈmɛm.bər/
  • Archaic
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  • It was hard for her to disremember the betrayal of her closest friend.

Examples

  • After the argument, he wanted to disremember everything she had said.

  • You didn't think I was gonna disremember you, did ya?

    The Tigger Movie (2000)

  • Right now she needed to lay down by herself and seek the solace of sleep so she could disremember the dog odor of Chester's hair as he had been.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • She tried to disremember the painful memories of her childhood.

Synonyms

to black out the memory
vsto disremember
7.7

To stop yourself remembering something sad or scary on purpose

deliberately refuse or try to erase memories even when not distress-related

Antonyms

to remember
∞ 1.0

To think about something from the past

How Deliberate

to erase
156 2.2
to suppress
88 5.8
to disremember
  • Archaic
1 9.9
to forget
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

disremember = remember (semi-transparent) = dis + remember

The morphological formation 'dis-' + 'remember' straightforwardly gives the sense 'not remember'.

Etymology

Disremember can also mean to refuse to remember because the beginning part dis- can mean 'take away' and remember means 'keep in mind'. So it is like trying to 'take away' a memory or erase it on purpose, as when someone tries to forget a painful event.