forsook

forsake (fəˈseɪk)

—vb , -sakes, -saking, -sook, -saken
1.	to abandon
2.	to give up (something valued or enjoyed)

[Old English forsacan]

for'saker

—n

forsook (fəˈsʊk)

—vb
	the past tense of forsake

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forsake

O.E. forsacan "decline, refuse," from for- "completely" + sacan "to deny, refuse" (see sake).

forsook

p.t. of forsake.

Example sentences

The sun again forsook them, and again from leaden skies the snow-flakes were sifted over the land.

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"The light gradually forsook the deep water, as well as the deeper air, and the gloaming came to the fishes as well as to us, and more dim and gloomy to them, whose day is a perpetual twilight, though sufficiently bright for their weak and watery eyes. Vespers had already rung in many a dim and watery chapel down below, where the shadows of the weeds were extended in length over the sandy floor.... Meanwhile, like a dark evening cloud, we were wafted over the cope of their sky, deepening the shadows on their deluged fields."

-Henry David Thoreau

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