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Neglect adv. : Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.

Neglect adv. : To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

Neglect v. : Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

Neglect v. : Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

Neglect v. : Habitual carelessness; negligence.

Neglect v. : The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.

Example:
What is considered spousal Neglect? Does spousal Neglect even exist, or is that just life?

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Hemispatial neglect, free encyclopedia, search, English law, free dictionary, uncared, undone, inquests, causes of death, neurological condition, one side, body, visual field, adequately, disambiguation pages, Personal tools, Interaction, Toolbox.

Defination from the web:
Neglect (English law), in English law a term used in inquests into causes of death. Hemispatial neglect, a neurological condition in which an individual does not attend to one side of the body or visual field ... 

synonyms
  (noun) disregard
  (noun) disuse
  (noun) negligence
  (noun) neglectfulness
  (noun) carelessness
  (noun) nonperformance
  (noun) declination
  (noun) decline
  (noun) inattention
  (noun) mistreatment
  (noun) nonaccomplishment
  (noun) nonachievement
  (noun) sloppiness
  (verb) pretermit
  (verb) omit
  (verb) drop
  (verb) miss
  (verb) leave out
  (verb) overlook
  (verb) overleap
  (verb) fail
  (verb) ignore
  (verb) disregard
antonyms
  (verb) attend to


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