forego

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forego¹

  • /fɔɹˈɡoʊ/ US
  • /fɔːˈɡəʊ/ UK

Sounds like forgo · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Middle English forgan, from Old English foregān, equivalent to fore- + go.

verb foregoes · foregoing · forewent · foregone

  1. To precede, to go before. pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone

forego²

  • /fɔɹˈɡoʊ/ US
  • /fɔːˈɡəʊ/ UK

Sounds like forgo · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

See forgo.

verb foregoes · foregoing · forewent · foregone

  1. alternative, often, proscribed Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish.forgo […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.

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