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Forsake   /fɔrsˈeɪk/   Listen
Forsake

verb
(past forsook; past part. forsaken; pres. part. forsaking)
1.
Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.  Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate.






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"Forsake" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I shall forget or forsake you; for if, when I examine you, I find that you have not lost your time, you shall ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... the fairy, "that you secure my good offices only by deserving them. If you prove unworthy of my kindness, I shall feel it proper to forsake you; and you will be left in a more deplorable state than this from which I am now desirous to relieve you." The brother and sister protested again and again, that they should never forgive themselves if they could be guilty of any ...
— The Flower Basket - A Fairy Tale • Unknown

... more word, While my heart beats still, While my breath is stirred 40 By my fainting will. O friend forsake me not, Forget not as I forgot: But keep thy heart for me, Keep thy faith true and bright; Through the lone cold winter night Perhaps I may ...
— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti

... Scots were cruel compatriots for me, sire; they had forced me to forsake the religion of my fathers; they had hung Lord Montrose, the most devoted of my servants, because he was not a Covenanter; and as the poor martyr, to whom they had offered a favor when dying, had asked that his body might be cut into as many ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... thy descendants who serve thy plume and crown, when thou art gone, will forsake Culhuacan, and as ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton


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