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forsake
verb as in abandon, turn one's back on
Example Sentences
Long-term settlement of Earth orbit, the moon, Mars, and beyond requires explorers forsake Earth’s gravity—the steady downward force every Earthly animal has evolved to navigate over billions of years.
It is appalling that we have now forsaken both the political spirit and the essential public policy machinery that was deployed so effectively just over a decade ago.
You forsake most notions of fashion for the efficiency of functionality.
Houston, like TCU, was one of the forsaken former SWC teams that didn’t make the cut for the Big 12 when it was created.
One of you may have to forsake the toaster oven you’ve enjoyed for the past decade in favor of the newer, smaller model your future roommate owns.
Every hour, the anthem is played, followed by Orthodox priests intoning prayers and beseeching God not to forsake Ukraine.
But will he be willing to forsake his lucrative gig at Fox News to grind it out on the campaign trail?
Muhammad assumed this risk because he refused to forsake any opportunity for peace.
The Kremlin will have little choice but to forsake its mega-projects.
He understood that to be leisurely is to forsake possibilities, even lives.
From it I learned that, if I would gain heaven, I must forsake sin and live a pure life.
His many failures caused his friends to forsake him and he was put in prison for not paying his debts.
May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never forsake you in the evil time.
As favour and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
He hasn't the nerve to forsake his native heath and roam the wide world, a free and independent gentleman.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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