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/fɔːˈseɪk/ · verb
(transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)..
Doeſt thou forſake the deuill and all his workes? / Aunſwere. I forſake them.
Such hazard now muſt doting Tarqvin make, / Pawning his honor to obtaine his luſt, / And for himſelfe, himſelfe he muſt forſake.
Thou lou'd the Church once, and didſt God adore, / But now forſakest him, thou lou'd before.
And about the ninth houre, Jeſus cried with a loud voyce, ſaying, Eli, Eli, lamaſabachthani, that is to ſay, My God, my God, why haſt thou forſaken mee?
He is forſaken of the world, his kinfolk, friends, and acquaintance; his owne members and ſenſes faile him; yea, hee forſaketh (as it were) himſelfe, in that the very vſe of reaſon forſaketh him.
Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.
To ABANDON [...] to forſake utterly, to caſt off; to give up ones ſelf wholly to any prevailing Paſſion or Vice.
That conſcience there performs her proper part, / And writes a doomſday ſentence on his heart; / Forſaking, and forſaken of all friends, / He now perceives where earthly pleaſure ends, [...]
Use for sake when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
For sake means (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something)..
Common synonyms include desolate, lurch, desert, abandon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Doeſt thou forſake the deuill and all his workes? / Aunſwere. I forſake them.
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