forsakeverb [ T ]
uk/fɔːˈseɪk/us/fɔːrˈseɪk/forsook, forsakenforsake verb [ T ] (LEAVE)
literary to leave someone for ever, especially when they need you:
Do not forsake me!
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Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- sally forth idiom
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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forsake verb [ T ] (STOP)
formal to stop doing or having something:
He decided to forsake politics for journalism.
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Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- give up sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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