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third-person singular simple present ignores, present participle ignoring, simple past and past participle ignored
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. quotations examples
Ignore these four words.
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, page 109
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1
The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53
To pretend to not notice someone or something. examples
(obsolete) Fail to notice.
(obsolete) Not to know.