disremember

[ dis-ri-mem-ber ]

verb (used with object)

, Southern and South Midland U.S.

1. to fail to remember; forget.

disremember

/ ˌdɪsrɪˈmɛmbə /

verb

1. informal.
   to fail to recall (someone or something)

Word History and Origins

Origin of disremember¹

First recorded in 1805–15; dis- ¹ + remember

Example Sentences

“The Trump Administration was engaged in trying to disremember and trying to engage in kind of obfuscating the record of COVID-19 throughout,” Beiner said.

From Salon

It requires immense concentration to animate what has been ignored or repressed, and as Taylor writes, “The absent can only live in memory. As the saying goes, if you disremember us, you kill us, and I’m here to resist a second dying.”

From Los Angeles Times

Rather than disremember, Cage simply called for action.

From Los Angeles Times

There were challenges to making this list, yes: such as weeding out the vast number of purely competent writers; trying to disremember everything we'd read in profiles and judge them purely on their books; ignoring the many pleas made on one writer's behalf, from august sources, when clearly that writer wasn't good enough.

From The Guardian

"Maybe, my lady, that after lions our pheasants seem a bit tame to his lordship, though I disremember as I ever saw them wilder than what they be this year—but if you'll forgive the liberty, my lady, a gun do be as dangerous in Devonshire as in Africa, and 'tis my belief that his lordship has summat on his mind, as they say."

From Project Gutenberg