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English
Etymology
From dis- + remember.
Pronunciation
Verb
disremember (third-person singular simple present disremembers, present participle disremembering, simple past and past participle disremembered)
- (chiefly US dialectal) To fail to remember; to forget.
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:“[…] 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, […]
1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock & Co., part II (The Country of the Saints), chapter I (On the Great Alkali Plain), page 53:“Why don’t you say some yourself?” the child asked, with wondering eyes. “I disremember them,” he answered.
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 70:she replied, with her air of mock seriousness: ‘I seem ter disremember at the moment.’
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: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.
1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:‘I got a idee he's maybe sniffin around after a sartin gal, and me'n John is wonderin if he aint complete disremembered that that gal belongs to John's boy.’
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