Definition of "forego"

forego¹

/fɔːˈɡəʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone
1. To precede, to go before.
  Quotations
  pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
  1815, William Wordsworth, Methought I saw

forego²

/fɔːˈɡəʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone
1. Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish
  Quotations
  […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.
  Febraury 1762, T. Waller, “The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon”, in The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, volume I, page 34