"forgive and forget" meaning in English

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      "form": "forgives and forgets",
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    {
      "form": "forgiving and forgetting",
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    {
      "form": "forgave and forgot",
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      "form": "forgiven and forgotten",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, Wilkie Collins, The law and the lady, page 33",
          "text": "We will go away in the yacht. Does it matter where we live, so long as we live for each other? Forgive and forget! Oh, Valeria, Valeria, forgive and forget!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, page 73",
          "text": "'Not long before he died, the old man disowned him. Then a year and a half ago mom forgave and forgot.'",
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        }
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        "To absolve somebody completely for a past wrongdoing; to pardon with neither resentment nor a view to retribution."
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          "absolve",
          "absolve"
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        [
          "completely",
          "completely"
        ],
        [
          "wrongdoing",
          "wrongdoing"
        ],
        [
          "pardon",
          "pardon"
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        [
          "resentment",
          "resentment"
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        [
          "retribution",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To absolve somebody completely for a past wrongdoing; to pardon with neither resentment nor a view to retribution."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "forgive but don't forget"
        }
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḡafara wanasiya",
          "sense": "pardon without resentment",
          "word": "غَفَرَ وَنَسِيَ"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "pardon without resentment",
          "word": "perdonar y olvidar"
        }
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  "word": "forgive and forget"
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      "form": "forgives and forgets",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "forgiving and forgetting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "forgave and forgot",
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    {
      "form": "forgiven and forgotten",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "forgive but don't forget"
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          "ref": "1875, Wilkie Collins, The law and the lady, page 33",
          "text": "We will go away in the yacht. Does it matter where we live, so long as we live for each other? Forgive and forget! Oh, Valeria, Valeria, forgive and forget!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, page 73",
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      ],
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          "completely",
          "completely"
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          "wrongdoing"
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          "pardon",
          "pardon"
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        [
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        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To absolve somebody completely for a past wrongdoing; to pardon with neither resentment nor a view to retribution."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡafara wanasiya",
      "sense": "pardon without resentment",
      "word": "غَفَرَ وَنَسِيَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "pardon without resentment",
      "word": "perdonar y olvidar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forgive and forget"
}