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词汇 forsake
释义 forsake
verb[ T ]
uk /fɔːˈseɪk/ us /fɔːrˈseɪk/forsook | forsaken

forsakeverb[T] (LEAVE)


literary
to leave someone for ever, especially when they need you: (尤指在他人需要时)离开,抛弃,遗弃
Do not forsake me!不要抛弃我!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Departing
abandon
abandon ship
abandonment
absquatulate
backward
move
p.o.q.
peel away/off
piss off
pull
pull out
pull something off
push along
sea
track
vacate
vamoose
walk
walk off (somewhere)
walk out

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Relationships: ending & divorce

forsakeverb[T] (STOP)


formal
to stop doing or having something: 放弃,摒弃
He decided to forsake politics for journalism.他决定离开政界,转向新闻界。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stop having or doing something
abdicate
abdication
bandh
bomb
bomb out
break with something
butt
forfeit
forfeitable
forgo
forswear
give up
give up the ghostidiom
lay
self-denying
self-denyingly
self-renouncing
self-renunciation
self-sacrifice
throw

forsake | American Dictionary


forsake
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/fərˈseɪk, fɔr-/past tenseforsookus/fərˈsʊk, fɔr-/ | past participleforsakenus/fərˈseɪ·kən, fɔr-/
to leave forever or to give up completely:
I thought she might forsake ballet in favor of Irish dancing.

Examples of forsake


forsake
In our view, this strategy forsakes the only available mechanistic understanding of intelligent behaviour.
He forsakes the long-postponed pleasures of the marriage bed for the sweeter pleasure of revenge.
He was utterly convinced that this was because they had forsaken the traditions of protection offered by local saints and their shrines.
When the mechanics of causality have been forsaken, identity can never be known or measured, it can only be postulated and experienced.
I turn now to the objection that the coherence of religious practice is undermined once a religion's commitment to realism is forsaken.
The angels in heaven have not forsaken you.
The small suburb, conveniently located on a transport crossroad, turned into an urban centre of finance, commerce and manufacturing, gradually forsaking its 'garden city' characteristics.
One approach is to aggressively expand the innate feature set to account for all phonetically natural classes, while forsaking unnatural classes.
The remarkable thing about these books is that they can entertain such emotions without forsaking their attempt to give as humanly circumstantial an impression of this lost world as possible.
As we explain shortly, this thesis throws out the computational baby with the classical bathwater, and thereby forsakes the only available mechanistic understanding of intelligent behaviour.
Contemporary planning has failed precisely because it 'has forsaken the language and strategies of the urban conversation for the technical discourse of the academy and the bureaucracy'.
He is only half-gratified at recognising the disposability of nature, and he is by no means willing to forsake nature entirely.
The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics, chemistry and biology.
To forsake existing knowledge and connections to venture into new areas is to relinquish assets which have been accumulated.
He usually manifests a keen sense of humour, but for the moment it has forsaken him.
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