Block
Block verb - Be unable to remember.
Usage example: You are blocking the name of your first wife!
Forget
Forget verb - Be unable to remember.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The Title character from the Robin McKinley novel Sunshine pretends she has PTSD that made her forget or block her memories after escaping from being held captive by vampires.
Source: Faking Amnesia - Faking Amnesia: Sunshine pretends she has PTSD that made her forget or block her memories after escaping from being held captive by vampires.
Source: Literature / Sunshine - Cole can feel the pain, sorrow and regret of everyone around him (and is implied to be unable to block it off) and feels obliged to help them — and making them forget he ever existed afterwards.
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Forget and Block. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/block/forget
Block & Forget. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/block/forget>.
Forget or Block. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/block/forget.
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