disremember

American  

[dis-ri-mem-ber] / ˌdɪs rɪˈmɛm bər /

verb (used with object)

Southern and South Midland U.S.

1. to fail to remember; forget.

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disremember British  

/ ˌdɪsrɪˈmɛmbə /

verb

1. informal to fail to recall (someone or something)

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Etymology

Origin of disremember

First recorded in 1805–15; dis- ¹ + remember

Example Sentences

Rather than disremember, Cage simply called for action.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2016

She explained her blind eye: "I disremember did I get the lick before they put me in the jailhouse or endurin' the time they was puttin' me in the jailhouse."

From Time Magazine Archive

So he seen a comrade a-chargin' by that he knowed, and he hollers to him and called him by name—I disremember now what the feller's name was....

From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb

"I disremember," replied Horse Shoe; "being, as I said, a stranger in the parts, and not liking to make too free with axing after people's names."

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

"You don't disremember the part of Virginia you lived in?" he added, pursuing his examination.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton