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  1. transitive verb To refuse to pay attention to; disregard.

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  • Noonan is over the moon about Palin now -- ignore her glee, but please take part of column seriously, and very, very literally: —  No More Mister Nice Blog
  • Maximum size of output file (s) in Mbyte (default: 0) (no limit) -- ignore-seqend-markers | - M —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • If the government has seen yet it has continued to ignore, that is doubly unbelievable. —  MindaNews Feeds
  • a social network that i ignore, a virtual net - work of virtual people, none of whom i know the cats bring their fight downstairs, —  Watermark
  • -- ignore-release-gpg -- pdiff = none / mnt —  Planet Ubuntu Indonesia
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French ignorer, from Old French, from Latin ignōrāre; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch ignoreren = German ignoriren = Danish ignorere = Swedish ignorera, from French ignorer = Provencal Spanish Portuguese ignorar = Italian ignorare, from Latin ignōrare, have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore, from ignārus, not knowing, from in- privative + gnārus, knowing (Greek λνωρίζειν, make known), from *gno-scere, no-scere, = Greek γιγνώσκειν, = English know: see know.
 

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/ɪgˈnoʊr/
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