forsake
US: /fɔɹˈseɪk/
UK: /fɔːsˈeɪk/
UK: /fɔːsˈeɪk/
English Vietnamese dictionary
forsake /fə'seik/
- ngoại động từ forsook; forsaken
- bỏ rơi
- từ bỏ, bỏ
- to forsake bad habits: bỏ thói xấu
Advanced English dictionary
(literary)
1 to leave sb/sth, especially when you have a responsibility to stay: He had made it clear to his wife that he would never forsake her.
2 to stop doing sth, or leave sth, especially sth that you enjoy: She forsook the glamour of the city and went to live in the wilds of Scotland.
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Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 abandon, desert, quit, leave, flee, depart, vacate:
He forsook balmy California to dig for gold in the Klondike.
2 abandon, desert, leave, jilt, reject, throw over, jettison, cast off:
She has forsaken Michael for another man.
3 give up, yield, renounce, repudiate, relinquish, forgo, forswear, surrender, resign, abdicate, recant, deny, have or be done with, turn one's back on:
Would you forsake a throne for the love of a woman?
Concise English dictionary
forsaken|forsook|forsakes|forsakingfə(r)'seɪk
verb
+leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
