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Meanings of forgo in English

Portuguese
preceder
Catalan
antecedir
Spanish
preceder

Be earlier in time; go back further.

      preceder
      Portuguese
      penalidade
      Catalan
      privar-se
      Spanish
      perder

      Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime.

          penalidade
          Catalan
          deixar
          Spanish
          sacrificar

          Do without or cease to hold or adhere to.

                deixar
                Usage of forgo in English
                1
                Periods of fasting, times when we forgo sleep as long as possible.
                The Valley of Horses
                2
                Do respect their space and time and forgo the selfie requests, however.
                Independent.ie
                3
                People who purchase insurance do not forgo their rights to these services.
                The Irish Times
                4
                But I do understand some women's reluctance to forgo the sheen entirely.
                The Guardian
                5
                What could you offer us to forgo our rights and turn back?
                Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
                6
                Jack and Edith decided beforehand to forgo the complications of credit cards.
                The capitol game
                7
                Others forgo any sort of monetary transaction and rarely leave the commune.
                The Guardian
                8
                Nervously, they both said they would forgo dessert and have coffee instead.
                Death at La Fenice
                9
                All this will I do if he will now forgo his anger.
                The Iliad
                10
                All this will he do if you will now forgo your anger.
                The Iliad
                11
                Byron decided to forgo the urinals and lock himself into a stall.
                Fiendish deeds
                12
                Okay, maybe out of respect for the dead, I'd forgo the sausage.
                Alpine for You
                13
                I spend my nights now at the building's lobby, and forgo sleep.
                Audrey's door
                14
                These sectarians?-No :tounderstand is to forgo the imagined right apportioning blame.
                The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
                15
                Black Yak opted to forgo those pesky drawstrings altogether on the Niata.
                Rock and Ice Magazine
                16
                Should we forgo our dreams because we could get hurt or die?
                Climbing Magazine
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                Translations for forgo
                Forgo through the time
                Forgo across language varieties
                United States of America
                Common
                United Kingdom
                Less common