Thesaurus / forsake
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
From it I learned that, if I would gain heaven, I must forsake sin and live a pure life.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUM
His many failures caused his friends to forsake him and he was put in prison for not paying his debts.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUS
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.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYRE
He hasn't the nerve to forsake his native heath and roam the wide world, a free and independent gentleman.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
I saw very plainly that this was their bhil; one by one they began to forsake their tattoos and collect.
CONFESSIONS OF A THUGPHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
Never will he be willing to leave me or forsake M. David and enter the house of M. Bridou.
I am sure, beautiful ladies, that you will not forsake me, and to save my grandmother I would go to the end of the world.
LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOKVARIOUS
Bob seems sorry that he must forsake the Marsh & River when he is daily fowling, & never kills any Game.
To explain the known by the unknown is to forsake all intellectual sanity.
THEISM OR ATHEISMCHAPMAN COHEN
WORDS RELATED TO FORSAKE
- abandon
- abdicate
- abnegate
- back down
- cast
- cast off
- cede
- cut loose
- desert
- discard
- ditch
- drop
- drop like hot potato
- drop out
- dump
- forbear
- forgo
- forsake
- forswear
- hand over
- kick
- kiss good-bye
- lay aside
- leave
- opt out
- quit
- quit cold turkey
- release
- renounce
- repudiate
- resign
- retire from
- sacrifice
- shed
- stand down
- surrender
- swear off
- take the oath
- take the pledge
- vacate
- waive
- withdraw
- yield
- abdicate
- abjure
- abnegate
- abstain from
- apostacize
- arrogate
- cast off
- decline
- defect
- demit
- deny
- desert
- disavow
- discard
- disclaim
- disown
- divorce oneself from
- drop out
- dump
- eschew
- forgo
- forsake
- forswear
- give up
- leave flat
- leave off
- opt out
- quit
- rat
- recant
- relinquish
- repudiate
- resign
- sell out
- spurn
- swear off
- take the pledge
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- throw off
- throw over
- toss over
- turn
- waive
- walk out on
- wash hands of
- abdicate
- abjure
- abnegate
- abstain from
- apostacize
- arrogate
- cast off
- decline
- defect
- demit
- deny
- desert
- disavow
- discard
- disclaim
- disown
- divorce oneself from
- drop out
- dump
- eschew
- forgo
- forsake
- forswear
- give up
- leave flat
- leave off
- opt out
- quit
- rat
- recant
- relinquish
- repudiate
- resign
- sell out
- spurn
- swear off
- take the pledge
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- throw off
- throw over
- toss over
- turn
- waive
- walk out on
- wash hands of
- abandon
- abjure
- apostatize
- banish
- be against
- break with
- cast
- cast off
- cut off
- decline
- default
- defect
- demur
- deny
- desert
- disacknowledge
- disapprove
- disavow
- discard
- disclaim
- dishonor
- disinherit
- dismiss
- disown
- dump
- flush
- fly in the face of
- forsake
- nix
- oust
- rat
- recant
- refuse
- renounce
- repeal
- reprobate
- rescind
- retract
- reverse
- revoke
- spurn
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- turn
- turn down
- wash one's hands of
- abandon
- abdicate
- bail out
- bow out
- capitulate
- cease work
- cede
- demit
- divorce oneself from
- drop
- drop out
- end service
- fold
- forgo
- forsake
- give notice
- give up the ship
- hand in resignation
- hand over
- hang it up
- leave
- quit
- relinquish
- renounce
- retire
- secede
- separate oneself from
- sign off
- stand aside
- stand down
- step down
- surrender
- terminate
- throw in the towel
- turn over
- vacate
- waive
- walk out
- wash hands of
- yield
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