Forgo
/fɔːrˈɡoʊ/noun
To decide not to have or do something; to give up or omit.
Did you know?Forgo began as an older English form meaning “to go before” or “to precede,” and only later shifted into the modern sense of abandoning or doing without.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
foregān
“to go before; precede”
Middle English
ME
forgoen
“to go before; precede”
14th–16th Century
English
forgo
“to precede; later also to do without or abandon”
Modern English
English
forgo
“to decide not to have, use, or do something”