neglect
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
neglect/nɪˈɡlekt/
▶verb fail to give proper care or attention to.
■ fail to do something.
▶noun the state or process of neglecting or being neglected.■ failure to do something.
– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as negligence, negligent): from L. neglect-, neglegere ‘disregard’.
'neglect' also found in these Oxford entries:
benign neglect
- decrepit
- delinquency
- derelict
- dilapidated
- disrepair
- dust
- fail
- fester
- for-
- forget
- negligee
- negligence
- negligible
- pot
- rack
- scant
- self-neglect
- shirk
- waste
