What is another word for "neglect"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "neglect": abstain, abstinence, addle, alone, and, anvil, apart, arrear, aside, away, back, bad, banish, bar, bating, battle, blackball, break, cancel, caret, cast, close, coach, cofferdam, collapse, complete, crude, declare, defalcation, default, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, deficit, destroy, desuetude, discard, discontinuity, disjoin.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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