verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
forgive sins
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God has forgiven all my sins.
forgive/excuse/pardon the pun (= used to show you know you are making a pun )
pardon/forgive the expression (= used when you have said a word or phrase that might offend someone )
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After the climb, we were absolutely knackered, if you’ll pardon the expression.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ever
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I will never, ever forgive him, for leaving me alone with two small girls in this enormous house.
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I don't know if I will ever forgive Madness' fans: they took away my beloved Morrissey.
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How could she ever forgive him?
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I didn't know how you could ever forgive me.
never
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And as for those who destroyed my Sunday all those years ago, I shall never forgive them.
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She never forgave Remi for it.
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Your kids are so precious you'd never forgive yourself if something awful happened.
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The Rognes family, Paul and Florence, was devastated, and never forgave the insult.
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I know that you've never forgiven me for what happened, and I don't blame you, darling.
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I will never forgive that doctor his callousness.
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He never forgave us you know.
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If I have ruined my child, I will never forgive myself.
please
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Do please forgive this very tardy reply.
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Do please forgive me as I am kept going the whole day.
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Please forgive me if it sounds as if I think he has won.
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I am very sorry and please forgive me.
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Please forgive this invitation being to the reception only.
■ NOUN
debt
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It is asking creditors to forgive some debts and extend payments 24 to 48 months.
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If I eyed them now and then it was with forgiveness, as one forgives the debt of a needy friend.
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A lower court forgave the debt , but the case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
father
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But Vincent never forgave his father , holding him personally responsible for this betrayal.
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I never forgave my father for coming back from the war.
mistake
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I can forgive my mistakes 22.
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It was the old mountain teaching another brutal lesson, that the mountain and its weather does not forgive a mistake .
sin
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He healed the sick, raised the dead, exercised authority over the evil spirits and forgave sins .
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Costly grace is the only pure grace, which really forgives sins and gives freedom to the sinner.
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You have forgiven your people's sins and pardoned all their wrongs.
■ VERB
ask
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Bill has never asked anybody to forgive him before.
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When I saw him a week later he got down on his knees and asked me to forgive him what he done.
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He also added that Moore had never asked them to forgive her for throwing their lives into grief and chaos.
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It is asking creditors to forgive some debts and extend payments 24 to 48 months.
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I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions.
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An hour later she would ask to be forgiven .
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He hoped, I suppose, that she would come and ask him to forgive her.
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And ask Meg to forgive me, too.
forget
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Admittedly not all was forgotten or forgiven .
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Such a breach of trust is not forgotten , seldom forgiven .
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And seven members of the shadow cabinet put out statements warning Mr Ashdown that voters would neither forget nor forgive .
hope
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Elisabeth wrung her hands, still flushing with embarrassment, hoping David would forgive her.
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She hopes you will forgive her.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After several years of therapy, Deanna was finally able to forgive her father.
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He's not the kind of person who is quick to forgive .
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He had lied to me, and I couldn't forgive him for that.
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Hugh found his wife's behaviour hard to forgive .
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I could understand her being angry, but I'll still never forgive her the way she treated me afterwards.
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Please forgive me -- it was a complete accident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And as for those who destroyed my Sunday all those years ago, I shall never forgive them.
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He healed the sick, raised the dead, exercised authority over the evil spirits and forgave sins.
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I will never forgive that doctor his callousness.
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If the young among us have no idea who he was, they should be forgiven.