"disremember" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /dɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/ [General-American] Forms: disremembers [present, singular, third-person], disremembering [participle, present], disremembered [participle, past], disremembered [past]
Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ) Etymology: From dis- + remember. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|dis|remember}} dis- + remember Head templates: {{en-verb}} disremember (third-person singular simple present disremembers, present participle disremembering, simple past and past participle disremembered)
  1. (chiefly US dialectal) To fail to remember; to forget. Tags: US, dialectal Categories (topical): Memory

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 114:",
          "text": "“[…] and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend’s house, Miss What-you-may-call-her, I disremember her name, and they lost their steering-oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, […]",
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          "ref": "1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the \"Stranger People's\" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 70:",
          "text": "she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’",
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          "ref": "1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 33:",
          "text": "Then there was the honest count straight through, next the side show with its pretence of \"disrememberin'\", or doubts as to the number - doubts never laid except by a double count.",
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