Definition of forgets in English

Part of speech

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Verb forgets, forgetting, forgotten
forget - be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"
		block, blank out, draw a blank
		recollect, call back, call up, retrieve, recall, remember, think return or repeat a telephone call; "I am busy right now--can you call back in an hour?"; "She left a message but the contractor never called back"
		slip one's mind, slip insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly; "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"
forget - dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
		bury
		think of, remember look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"
		unlearn discard something previously learnt, like an old habit
		repress, suppress block the action of
forget - leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"
		leave
		lose fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"
		leave leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"
forget - forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"
		bear in mind, mind keep in mind
		leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, neglect, overlook, miss, drop disregard intentionally or let pass

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forget (v. t.)
To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
forget (v. t.)
To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.

forget
for-get′, v.t. to lose or put away from the memory: to neglect:—pr.p. forget′ting; pa.t. forgot′; pa.p. forgot′, forgot′ten.—adjs. Forget′able, Forget′table; Forget′ful, apt to forget: inattentive.—adv. Forget′fully.—ns. Forget′fulness; Forget′-me-not, a small herb (Myosotis palustris) with beautiful blue flowers, regarded as the emblem of friendship: a keepsake [a word adapted by Coleridge from the German Vergissmeinnicht]; Forget′ter, one who fails to bear in mind: a heedless person.—adv. Forget′tingly.—Forget one's self, to lose one's self-control or dignity, to descend to words and deeds unworthy of one's self. [A.S. forgietan—pfx. for-, away, gitan, to get.]