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forsake🔊

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

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Such hazard now must doting Tarqvin make, / Pawning his honor to obtaine his lust, / And for himselfe, himselfe he must forsake.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

(obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).

(obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).

(obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).

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