to forsake
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6.9
- verb
- /fɔrˈseɪk/
:
abandonar
- When the storm hit, she refused to forsake her friends, staying by their side until help arrived.
- forsake completely
- decide to forsake
God did not bring you this far to forsake you to let you go.
- God did not bring you this far to forsake you to let you go.
- See, if you're protecting me, I can't bother you because I can't afford to forsake your protection.
- But when the kid knows that you really love him and are for him, I think he then forsakes the world because he has a good foundation at home.
- That's true because I would be a hypocrite to forsake what has been good to me, whether that's an exception to the norm or not.
- You're not going to do that stuff because if you forsake it in this very unique moment in time, you can cross a chasm to super intelligence.
- Why have you forsaken me with these tricky bottle caps?
- So why is it that we have not as historians, we have forsaken what have done?
- The people who come to me want to forsake, to put behind them the life that they have been living.
Examples
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God will not forsake us.
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And when she learns the truth about your son, Margery will forsake you as well.
Fiction book (1993) -
The people who come to me want to forsake, to put behind them the life that they have been living.
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What I do know is that God will never leave you nor forsake you.
Fiction book (2000) -
Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
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Please don't forsake me, Justine.
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But she refused to forsake her family in that way, to dishonor them and accept dishonor herself.
Fiction book (2000) -
Forsaking all others for him alone... ...you will perform unto him all duties owed a husband... ...until death shall separate you.
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The ghosts are prophets of Allah sent to remind us never to forsake peace.
Fiction book (1999) -
"True religion," he declared, "implies a disposition to forsake Father and Mother, friends and country for Christ."
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To not take something or someone with you when you go
773
3.1
Leave someone or something behind permanently and without care
604
2.6
To go away from a place without taking someone or something with you
397
4.2
Let someone down when they need you
234
4.4
To abandon a person, plan, or thing suddenly
219
4.2
To leave people or a place when you are needed
Leave someone who needs you alone and helpless
Antonyms
How Abandoned
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word forsake comes from Old English parts: for- meaning 'away' or 'completely', like in forget, plus an old verb meaning 'to give up or leave'. So, to forsake someone is to leave them completely, especially when they need your help.