To forgo is to do without, or relinquish: “He will forgo the pleasure of her company”; “I'll forgo the formality of requiring a co-signer.” The present participle is forgoing (“She is forgoing the procedure”), the past-tense form can be forwent (“She forwent the procedure”) or forgone (“She had forgone the procedure”), ...
How do you use forgoing?
Forgoing sentence example
- He must still (at least according to later rules) live in strict abstinence, forgoing , e.g., the use of marriage. ...
- Normative agents fled from known aggressive agents, forgoing social interaction but also forgoing the possibility of theft and a loss to their strength.
Which is correct foregoing or forgoing?
That 'forgoing' should be 'foregoing'. This is because 'foregoing' means 'just mentioned' or 'preceding'. See Oxford Dictionaries. The way to remember the spelling of 'foregoing' is to think of 'as mentioned before'.
