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neglect

English

  1. 🔊 the state of something that has been unused and neglected
    “the house was in a terrible state of neglect”
  2. 🔊 willful lack of care and attention
  3. 🔊 the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
  4. 🔊 lack of attention and due care
  5. 🔊 failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
  6. 🔊 leave undone or leave out
    “How could I miss that typo?”
  7. 🔊 fail to attend to
    “he neglects his children”
  8. 🔊 give little or no attention to
    “Disregard the errors”
  9. 🔊 fail to do something
    “She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desamparo neglect
  2. 🔊 inasistencia neglect
  3. 🔊 abandonar to neglect
  4. 🔊 descuidar to neglect
  5. 🔊 negligir to neglect
  6. 🔊 dejadez neglect, carelessness, slovenliness
  7. 🔊 arrumbar to neglect, abandon, leave (something unneeded)

Similar words

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