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forsakeverb to cause to remain behindforsaking most of our possessions, we evacuated just before the hurricane struck abandon, desert, leave, maroon, quit, strand discard, ditch, dump, fling, jettison, junk, scrap, shed, shuck (off), throw away, throw outdeliver, give up, hand over, relinquish, surrender, yieldescape, retreat (from), take off (from), vacate, withdraw (from)abjure, cut off, disown, reject, renounce, repudiate, separate (from)sacrificedistancedisregard, forget, ignore, neglect walk away from, walk out on reclaim harbor, have, hold, keep, own, possess, reserve, retain, withholdredeem, rescue, save abandon, desert, forsake mean to leave without intending to return.abandon suggests that the thing or person left may be helpless without protection.abandoned children desert implies that the object left may be weakened but not destroyed by one's absence.a deserted town forsake suggests an action more likely to bring impoverishment or bereavement to that which is forsaken than its exposure to physical dangers.a forsaken lover before the 12th century |