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Verb: forsake (forsook,forsaken)  for'seyk or fu(r)'seyk
Usage: literary
  1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
    "The mother forsook her children";
    - abandon, desolate, desert

Derived forms: forsakes, forsaken, forsaking, forsook

Type of: leave

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