to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts
If you neglect someone or something, you fail to look after them properly. The woman denied that she had neglected her child Feed plants and they grow, neglect them and they suffer. an ancient and neglected church. Neglect is also a noun. The town's old quayside is collapsing after years of neglect
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
failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"