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

See Examples For:

disremember

“She understood the ongoing national effort to disremember — this startling combination of dismembering and remembering — to protect the innocence of America,” Glaude says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

I'll see they know you're pleased, but you ain't to disremember the rest of what I said.

From The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire by Vandercook, Margaret

"I—I seem—to disremember something," the colonel went on, forgetting this momentary, formless annoyance.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston