forsake

Word family

for·sake /fəˈseɪk $ fər-/ verb (past tensepst forsook /-ˈsʊk/, past participlepp forsaken /-ˈseɪkən/) [transitiveT] formal

1 ALLEAVE A RELATIONSHIPto leave someone, especially when you should stay because they need you 遗弃，抛弃，将…弃之不顾 SYN abandon

children forsaken by their parents

被父母遗弃的孩子

2 STOP DOING somethingto stop doing, using, or having something that you enjoy 放弃，摒弃；戒掉〔喜爱的事物〕 SYN give up

She will never forsake her vegetarian principles.

她绝不会放弃自己的素食主义原则。

3 LEAVE A PLACEto leave a place, especially when you do not want to 〔尤指不情愿地〕离开

He has forsaken his native Finland to live in Britain.

他离开祖国芬兰移居英国。

→ godforsaken

Examples from the Corpus

forsake• If Barlaston can be saved, no other major country house need be forsaken.• Disappointed customers and forsaken employees pretty much had to tough it out alone.• They have a certain vibrancy, an eye-catching quality, and they go for impact without forsaking good taste.• Gwendolyn begged Hugo not to forsake her.• More than 80 older men and women have forsaken retirement to help at local schools.• They were as welcoming as ever; a little surprised because they had thought I had forsaken them.• When science forsakes this basis it loses its way.

Origin forsake

Old English forsacan

for·sake verb

Chinese

Syllable

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