disremember

(redirected from disremembering)
Also found in: Thesaurus.

dis·re·mem·ber

 (dĭs′rĭ-mĕm′bər)
v. dis·re·mem·bered, dis·re·mem·ber·ing, dis·re·mem·bers Informal
v.tr.
To fail to remember.
v.intr.
To forget.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

disremember

(ˌdɪsrɪˈmɛmbə)
vb
informal chiefly US to fail to recall (someone or something)
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

dis•re•mem•ber

(ˌdɪs rɪˈmɛm bər)

v.t.
to forget.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

disremember


Past participle: disremembered
Gerund: disremembering

Imperative
disremember
disremember
Present
I disremember
you disremember
he/she/it disremembers
we disremember
you disremember
they disremember
Preterite
I disremembered
you disremembered
he/she/it disremembered
we disremembered
you disremembered
they disremembered
Present Continuous
I am disremembering
you are disremembering
he/she/it is disremembering
we are disremembering
you are disremembering
they are disremembering
Present Perfect
I have disremembered
you have disremembered
he/she/it has disremembered
we have disremembered
you have disremembered
they have disremembered
Past Continuous
I was disremembering
you were disremembering
he/she/it was disremembering
we were disremembering
you were disremembering
they were disremembering
Past Perfect
I had disremembered
you had disremembered
he/she/it had disremembered
we had disremembered
you had disremembered
they had disremembered
Future
I will disremember
you will disremember
he/she/it will disremember
we will disremember
you will disremember
they will disremember
Future Perfect
I will have disremembered
you will have disremembered
he/she/it will have disremembered
we will have disremembered
you will have disremembered
they will have disremembered
Future Continuous
I will be disremembering
you will be disremembering
he/she/it will be disremembering
we will be disremembering
you will be disremembering
they will be disremembering
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been disremembering
you have been disremembering
he/she/it has been disremembering
we have been disremembering
you have been disremembering
they have been disremembering
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been disremembering
you will have been disremembering
he/she/it will have been disremembering
we will have been disremembering
you will have been disremembering
they will have been disremembering
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been disremembering
you had been disremembering
he/she/it had been disremembering
we had been disremembering
you had been disremembering
they had been disremembering
Conditional
I would disremember
you would disremember
he/she/it would disremember
we would disremember
you would disremember
they would disremember
Past Conditional
I would have disremembered
you would have disremembered
he/she/it would have disremembered
we would have disremembered
you would have disremembered
they would have disremembered
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

disremember

verb
Informal. To fail to remember:
Idiom: draw a blank.
The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in ?
References in classic literature ?
This is the way with benefits, when they are bestowed on such disremembering hounds!
The abundance of aesthetic material furnishes the opportunity for disremembering and erasure.
This is not about moving on but about moving forward, with the assurance that what we are inching toward is not a repeat or a disremembering of the abuses of yesterday.
It thwarts disremembering by amassing scattered histories and sharing them publicly as concrete presences in the world.
She complained about disremembering some parts of a day and what she had done.
In an early interview she claims, "I'm not an issues playwright" (76), but throughout the trajectory of her work, Parks discusses battling stereotypes and questioning the history of American history and asserts that she is "dismembering and disremembering black history" in order to restore and/or create a black presence (5).
Second, I discuss the confluence of neoliberalism, race, and the disremembering of King that this response demonstrates.
Part of the uniqueness of this research is the examination of contemporary black lesbian texts that have heretofore never been analyzed, such as Jackie Kay's Trumpet; Cherry Muhanji's Her; Jewelle Gomez's "Louisiana, 1850"; LaShonda Barnett's "Miss Hannah's Lesson"; and SDiane Adamz Bogus's "The Champagne Lady." These texts all revise history by instantiating the black lesbian subject over and against what Richardson calls "disremembering," or the process by which black lesbian subjects are deliberately forgotten or "un-mourned" in the recounting of black cultural history.
It is only by disremembering this history that 'native plants' can be conflated with anti-immigrant nativism.