forsake
/fɔɹˈseɪk/ verb C2- To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
Plural forsake · He/she/it forsakes · Past forsook · Past participle forsaken · -ing form forsaking
Verb forms
- Base form
- forsake
- He/she/it
- forsakes
- Past
- forsook
- Past participle
- forsaken
- -ing form
- forsaking
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.”
He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying, “What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.”
A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground.
My previous letters and telegrams have kept you pretty well up to date as to all that has occurred in this most God-forsaken corner of the world.
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