forsook

[fawr-sook]

Origin

verb

a simple past tense of forsake.

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verb (used with object), -sook, -sak·en, -sak·ing.

to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.

to give up or renounce (a habit, way of life, etc.).

Origin:
before 900; Middle English forsaken to deny, reject, Old English forsacan, equivalent to for- for- + sacan to dispute

Related forms

for·sak·er, noun

un·for·sak·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. See desert². 2. forswear, relinquish, forgo.

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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).

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forsook

p.t. of forsake.

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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."

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