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Definition

to abandon or give up on — such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place

forsake = abandon or give up

In the third year of their brutal civil war, moderates feel forsaken by the west.

forsaken = abandoned

With only twelve, the boldest and the best,
I seek the adventure, and forsake the rest.
Homer -- The Odyssey

forsake = abandon

Some Christians still debate the differences found in the New Testament, where Christ declared "I and my Father are one," but also prayed on the cross, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani" (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)
Trinity - Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity (retrieved 05/20/06)

forsaken = abandoned

A painful wrenching in my heart made me cry aloud, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!"
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

forsaken = abandoned

forsake = abandon or give up on

Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

forsook = abandoned or gave up on

Even cannibals wouldn't live in such a God-forsaken place.
Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game

forsaken = abandoned

And is it with a clear and certain mind that you forsake your husband and your children?
Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House

forsake = abandon or give up on

There was something sad and a little frightening about the place, because it all seemed so forsaken and long ago.
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

forsaken = abandoned

I might come to think I was forsaken again, and lose the feeling that God was good to me.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner

forsaken = abandoned or given up on

she forsook so many noble matches, Her father, and her country, and her friends,
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

forsook = abandoned or gave up on

forsake = abandon or give up on

forsake = abandon or give up on

forsaken = abandoned or given up on

For the Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle-earth,
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring

forsaken = abandoned

Would he think we had forsaken him and deliberately ripped his wife's clothes—viciously broken the pigs?
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

forsaken = abandoned or given up on

They will become Forsaken, easy prey for the demons, and those Downworlders who have not fled will be quickly eradicated.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

forsaken = abandoned

forsake = abandon or give up on

Unbeknownst to him, he had begun the ritual of semaphore with his father, forsaking words or physical affection.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

forsaking = abandoning

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