Word Meanings - FOREGO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach,

Additional info about word: FOREGO

1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated. All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego. Milton. Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. Keble. never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson. Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with Forego, to go before.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOREGO)

• Abandon
• Leave
• forsake
• desert
• renounce
• cease
• relinquish
• discontinue
• castoff
• resign
• retire
• quit
• forego
• forswear
• depart from
• vacate
• surrender
• abjure
• repudiate
• Relinquish
• Resign
• leave
• abandon
• give up
• lay aside
• cede
• Remit
• Relax
• pardon
• absolve
• forgive
• Renounce
• Reject
• disclaim
• disown
• disavow
• deny
• recant
• Surrender
• return
• withdraw
• abdicate
• submit

Related words: (words related to FOREGO)

• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• VACATE
  Etym: 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of
• REMIT
  1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• RESIGNED
  Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.