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forgo

Verbs

• (v) do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  • We are dispensing with formalities
  • relinquish the old ideas
  foreswear, waive, dispense with, forego, relinquish,
• (v) be earlier in time; go back further
  • Stone tools precede bronze tools
  antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate,
• (v) lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
  • you've forfeited your right to name your successor
  • forfeited property
  forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forego,

Synonyms

foreswear waive dispense with forego relinquish antecede antedate precede predate forfeit give up throw overboard

Antonyms

postdate follow arrogate lay claim claim

Words of close approximity