All 4 Uses
forsake
in
Medea, by Euripides
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- Jason doth forsake My mistress and his own two sons, to make His couch in a king's chamber.†
*forsake = abandon or give up on
- If friends will speak, she hears no more Than some dead rock or wave that beats the shore: Only the white throat in a sudden shame May writhe, and all alone she moans the name Of father, and land, and home, forsook that day For this man's sake, who casteth her away.†
forsook = abandoned or gave up on
- By seducing and forsaking thee?†
forsaking = abandoning or giving up on
- For a heart unslaken, For a troth forsaken, Lo, babes that call thee from a bloody deep: And thy love returns not.†
forsaken = abandoned or given up on
Definitions:
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(1)
(forsake) to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)