• IPA: /fɔɹˈseɪk/

forsake (forsakes, present participle forsaking; past forsook, past participle forsaken)

1. To abandon#Verb|abandon, to give up, to leave#Verb|leave (permanently), to renounce.
   • 1726, N[athan] Bailey, “To ABANDON ↗”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 3rd edition, London: Printed for J. Darby, […], OCLC 863527253 ↗:

     To ABANDON [...] to forſake utterly, to caſt off; to give up ones ſelf wholly to any prevailing Paſſion or Vice.

   • 1911: Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, p.39

     There may be nothing noble in renouncing one's country, in abandoning one's home, in forsaking one's people; but is there not something remarkable in this great move one makes.

   • 1998, "Damien (South Park)", season 1, episode 10 of South Park

     Stan: You've got to fight, Jesus.

     Jesus: Why, what's the point? No one believes in me. Everyone put their money on Satan. My father forsaked^[sic] me, the town forsaked^[sic] me. I'm completely forsook^[sic].

• French: abandonner, renoncer
• German: aufgeben (transitive), verlassen, im Stich lassen
• Italian: abbandonare, rinunciare
• Portuguese: abandonar
• Russian: (perfective) оста́вить
• Spanish: abandonar