Definitions
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
Word origin
From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from”), from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”). By surface analysis, for- + sake.
Used in a sentence
“Doeſt thou forſake the deuill and all his workes? / Aunſwere. I forſake them.”
“Such hazard now muſt doting Tarqvin make, / Pawning his honor to obtaine his luſt, / And for himſelfe, himſelfe he muſt forſake.”
“Thou lou'd the Church once, and didſt God adore, / But now forſakest him, thou lou'd before.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Abandon”7 letters
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