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forsaken

2 definitions found for forsaken

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  Forsake \For*sake"\, v. t. [imp. Forsook; p. p. Forsaken; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Forsaking.] [AS. forsacan to oppose, refuse;
     for- + sacan to contend, strive; akin to Goth. sakan. See
     For-, and Sake.]
     1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to
        depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and
        flatterers forsake us in adversity.
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              If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my
              judgments.                            --Ps. lxxxix.
                                                    30.
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     2. To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
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              If you forsake the offer of their love. --Shak.
  
     Syn: To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up;
          renounce; reject. See Abandon.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :


  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "forsaken":
     abandoned, available, cast-off, castaway, defenseless, derelict,
     deserted, desolate, discarded, disowned, disused, fatherless,
     forlorn, free, friendless, godforsaken, helpless, homeless,
     jettisoned, jilted, kithless, left, loveless, lovelorn, marooned,
     motherless, open, outcast, outside the gates, outside the pale,
     rejected, solitary, spurned, tenantless, unbeloved, uncherished,
     uncouth, unfilled, unfriended, uninhabited, unloved, unmanned,
     unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, unstaffed, untaken, untenanted,
     untended, vacant