Forsake Definition
fôr-sāk, fər-
forsaken, forsakes, forsaking, forsook
verb
forsaken, forsakes, forsaking, forsook
To give up; renounce (a habit, idea, etc.)
Webster's New World
To leave; abandon.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- rediscover
- revert
- return
- go back
- stay with
- return to
Origin of Forsake
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From Middle English forsaken (“to reject, deny”), from Old English forsacan (“to dispute, quarrel, refuse, oppose”), from Proto-Germanic *farsakaną (“to renounce”), equivalent to for- + sake. Akin to Dutch verzaken, Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Swedish försaka (“to give up, to be without”), Gothic (sakan, “to rebuke, quarrel”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English forsaken from Old English forsacan sāg- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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