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# ignore

«ignore» in Mova's school dictionary: **To pay no attention to someone or something on purpose** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (ignore, ignores, ignored, ignoring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To pay no attention to someone or something on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#m1)

2) To not do anything about something you should notice: ignore a warning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In feelings and bullying lessons: sometimes it helps to ignore unkind teasing and walk away; but don't ignore bullying — tell an adult; leaving someone out on purpose («ignoring them») is also unkind. In safety: never ignore a warning sign, an alarm or pain. In online safety: ignore and block messages from strangers. Phrases: ignore someone, ignore the rules, ignore a warning, can't ignore, completely ignore.

### examples

- She ignored me when I said hello. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x1)
- Try to ignore people who are mean, and tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x2)
- Never ignore a fire alarm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x3)
- He ignored the warning sign and got stung. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x4)
- Ignore messages from people you don't know. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x5)
- Don't ignore pain — tell someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x6)
- The dog ignored the ball and went to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x7)
- It's unkind to ignore a new classmate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x8)
- They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: ignored. «Ignore» is not the same as «not know»: «ignorant» means not knowing. Ignoring a warning can be dangerous; ignoring an insult can be wise. In maths word problems: «ignore the extra information» means some numbers are not needed.

### In the corpora

- [One worker alone has little power, but many together are much harder to ignore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/11/)
- [Getting used to an invention does not mean ignoring its real risks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/17/)
- [Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran; go, went; catch, caught.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/14/)
- ["Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence once spaces, capitals and punctuation are ignored.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/9/)
- [To understand polite rudeness, ignore the kind words and listen for what comes after them and how it is said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ignore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ignore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.