Definition of neglect

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Neglect (adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts..

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Wastrel :: Wastrel (n.) A neglected child; a street Arab.
Nonobedience :: Nonobedience (n.) Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
Sin :: Sin (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against..
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Disorder :: Disorder (n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
Delinquent :: Delinquent (n.) Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
Infringe :: Infringe (v. t.) To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract..
Inoperative :: Inoperative (a.) Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century..
Neglect :: Neglect (v.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.
Snub :: Snub (v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly..
Favoritism :: Favoritism (n.) The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality..
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.
Debt :: Debt (n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
Imprescriptible :: Imprescriptible (a.) Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass..
Squalidity :: Squalid (a.) Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
Omit :: Omit (v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..
Bent :: Bent (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
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