🚫forgo

verb
/fɔːrˈɡoʊ/

Meaning

to decide not to do or have something

Example Sentences

She decided to forgo dessert to maintain her diet.

Synonyms

give up, relinquish, abstain, renounce

Antonyms

indulge, accept, enjoy

Collocations

forgo pleasure, forgo rights, forgo opportunity

More Example Sentences

I literally forgot my passport at home.

He forgot last time, but he remembered to lock the door today.

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes stacked from floor to ceiling against the back wall

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes stacked from floor to ceiling against the back wall so he sorts everything into three piles: keep, donate, and throw away

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes stacked from floor to ceiling against the back wall so he sorts everything into three piles: keep, donate, and throw away and spends the entire Saturday working through the mess

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes stacked from floor to ceiling against the back wall so he sorts everything into three piles: keep, donate, and throw away and spends the entire Saturday working through the mess discovering old photographs and childhood memories along the way

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes stacked from floor to ceiling against the back wall so he sorts everything into three piles: keep, donate, and throw away and spends the entire Saturday working through the mess discovering old photographs and childhood memories along the way that bring a smile to his face despite the hard work

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes stacked from floor to ceiling against the back wall so he sorts everything into three piles: keep, donate, and throw away and spends the entire Saturday working through the mess discovering old photographs and childhood memories along the way that bring a smile to his face despite the hard work and by the evening the garage is clean and organized

A man cleans out his garage after many years of neglect and finds boxes of old toys, tools, and forgotten clothes stacked from floor to ceiling against the back wall so he sorts everything into three piles: keep, donate, and throw away and spends the entire Saturday working through the mess discovering old photographs and childhood memories along the way that bring a smile to his face despite the hard work and by the evening the garage is clean and organized with enough space to finally park his car inside for the first time in years.

Related Vocabularies

to use something dishonestly or illegally for one's own purposes
to move past or beyond something
to hit forcefully; to stop work as a form of protest
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to form a mental image of; to believe something unreal to be true

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