FORSAKE


Meaning of FORSAKE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fə(r)seɪk ]

( forsakes, forsaking, forsook /fə(r)sʊk/ , forsaken)

1.

If you forsake someone, you leave them when you should have stayed, or you stop helping them or looking after them. ( LITERARY )

I still love him and I would never forsake him.

VERB : V n [ disapproval ]

2.

If you forsake something, you stop doing it, using it, or having it. ( LITERARY )

He doubted their claim to have forsaken military solutions to the civil war...

VERB : V n

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