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Another word for forsake

forsake Synonyms

forsake

v.

To abandon
desert, leave, quit; see abandon 2.
To relinquish
renounce, give up, surrender; see abandon 1. See syn. study at abandon.

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Another word for forsake

verb

To give up or leave without intending to return or claim again:

abandon, desert³, leave¹, quit, throw over. Idioms: run out on, walk out on. See keep

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He won't forsake his duty, she said and rose, agitated.
When you forsake divine code, it has a way of forsaking you.
Bribed them with a sum of seventy-five thousand crowns to forsake him, Edward further undertaking to guarantee the loyalty of the duke of Brittany.
As early as 1425 the herring, a constant source of early wealth, began to forsake the Baltic waters.
It was this connexion, probably, which finally induced James to forsake his vacillating foreign policy, and to :ange himself definitely among the enemies of England.

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