(literary)
1 to leave sb/sth, especially when you have a responsibility to stay:
He had made it clear to his wife that he would never forsake her.
2 to stop doing sth, or leave sth, especially sth that you enjoy:
She forsook the glamour of the city and went to live in the wilds of Scotland.
seealsoGODFORSAKEN
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for forsake is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does forsake appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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