Forsake

Quick meaning: Forsake is a verb meaning (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).

Meaning

(transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).

Example Sentences

Doeſt thou forſake the deuill and all his workes? / Aunſwere. I forſake them.

Thou lou'd the Church once, and didſt God adore, / But now forſakest him, thou lou'd before.

To ABANDON [...] to forſake utterly, to caſt off; to give up ones ſelf wholly to any prevailing Paſſion or Vice.

Such hazard now muſt doting Tarqvin make, / Pawning his honor to obtaine his luſt, / And for himſelfe, himſelfe he muſt forſake.

Word Forms

• forsakes
• forsaking
• forsook
• forsaken
• forsakest
• forsookest
• forsaketh

Synonyms for forsake

Depending on context, synonyms include desolate, lurch, desert, abandon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abandon, desolate, desert, lurch, abdicate, forgo.

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