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(verb) leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
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Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook |
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Related Words: forget, jump, pass over, skip, skip over |
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Antonyms: attend to |
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(verb) fail to attend to; "he neglects his children" |
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Related Words: slack |
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(verb) give little attention or respect to |
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Synonyms: cold-shoulder, disregard, ignore, slight |
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Related Words: disesteem, disrespect |
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(noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" |
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Synonyms: disuse |
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Related Words: decline, omission |
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(noun) lack of care and attention |
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Synonyms: disregard |
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Related Words: mistreatment |
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(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" |
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Synonyms: fail |
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Related Words: default, default on, miss, muff |
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(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern |
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Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
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Related Words: carelessness, delinquency, dereliction, laxity, laxness, remissness, willful neglect |
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(noun) lack of attention and due care |
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Synonyms: disregard |
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Related Words: inattention, omission |
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(noun) failure to act |
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Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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Related Words: dereliction, dodging, escape, evasion, neglect of duty, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement |
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