Today's Word "forgo"
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forgo \for-GO\ (transitive verb) - To abstain from; to do without. Inflected forms: forwent, forgone, forgoing, forgoes.
"Having decided to forgo the healing silence of Zen koans in her solitude, she was reading Ann Landers when Jill came in." -- Beth Gutcheon, "Five Fortunes"
Forgo derives from Old English forgan, "to go without, to forgo," from for-, "without" + gan, "to go."
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