(v. t.) To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
(v. t.) To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In medical practice today, doctors are forsaking giving of advice, for fear of malpractice suits, while shifting the focus to the fetal rights debate.
(2) But I have lower standards than Slate because I really don't care why Hov and Bey are forsaking meat, fish and dairy as there are too many other compensations here.
(3) More recently Rowland appears to have decided to forsake his privacy and take an active role in British party politics.
(4) However some, like David Smith, a 53-year-old IT project manager, fear the EU council’s draft guidelines – which give Spain a veto over any arrangements on a future relationship with the territory – mean the UK will be forced to forsake the territory, giving it with no choice but to seek independence.
(5) It is urged that advocates of psychosomatic medicine give the concept of "holism" meaning at the most fundamental level by establishing a rational basis for theory, or else forsake this line of research for others which yield causal relationships conductive to effective therapy.
(6) From Walter Raleigh robbing Spanish galleons through the Empire to the rise of the turbo-charged gambling banks, 400 years of history tells us that deep in the DNA of the British there is a propeller forcing us to forsake planning in favour of dodging and weaving to make our way in the world.
(7) Gradually, he came to write fewer vituperative articles and more ruminative ones on music (especially Wagner), literature and the arts, though never forsaking his pet hates - lawyers, especially judges, and home secretaries, nor his second love after music - food.
(8) In fact, it would make better sense for policies to forsake the arcane rural and urban lines of directing investment and recognise that India’s urbanity lies on the points of connections between these abstractions.
(9) With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends.
(10) These are admittedly extravagant additions and the leavened dough crust requires a little effort, too, but if this pudding didn't merit the work I'd be the first to forsake it.
(11) That we are less than pleased with the results in measures of workplace safety performance during the last decade and a half is not a reason to forsake the inspection process.
(12) Of importance in optimal diabetes therapy and in sexual dysfunction research in diabetics is the integration of emotional and behavioral aspects without forsaking the somatic factors.
(13) Turkey’s media faces 'unprecedented crisis', says English PEN Read more Coming on top of Erdoğan’s controversial military crackdown on Kurdish areas in the east and south-east of the country, newspaper and other media closures , prosecutions of leading editors and journalists, and his recent remarks urging Muslim women to forsake careers and have more children , the new law may result in a permanent freezing of Turkey’s already mostly moribund EU accession talks.
(14) Wuthering Heights forsakes Arnold's beloved housing estates altogether – though even the most forbidding of these would resemble Paris in springtime next to the rain-lashed moors near the Pennine Way where Arnold filmed her adaptation.
(15) Yes, it is awful at that time for that year group, but surely the next year will be better for them rather than saying we are going to forsake the next five years of that child's education.
(16) And as “the big four” take investment money to grow, smaller coffee shops – the young indies – will not only fill the space but expand on it by relying on hyper-local focus, transparency and sustainable initiatives like solar-powered spaces (like Salt Lake City’s Publik Coffee Roasters ), minimizing their menus (Culver City, California’s Bar Nine) and even forsaking brick and mortar for a recycled airstream (Seattle’s Slate Coffee ).
(17) The authors suggest (1) that admission interview scores help schools to identify more clearly those applicants most likely to become strong, competitive performers in residency and (2) that the significant relationship between interview scores and dean's letter ratings indicates a need to discover what qualities the interview actually measures and to consider the methods by which interviewers are trained, rather than to forsake the interview.
(18) Roger Greatorex London • Saying sorry for the Iraq war may not help Labour win the election, but it is another sign of Jeremy Corbyn being someone who is willing to forsake political pragmatism and short-term political gain (eg, winning an election) in support of broader, deeper-held values and principles (eg, we were wrong in starting the Iraq war, and the world is a worse place for it – see Isis).
(19) There was complete clearing of 12 patients (66 p. 100); 2 patients (11 p. 100) improved cutaneous lesions without a complete clearing, and there was no response to treatment for 3 patients (22 p. 100) (1 with erythrodermia, 1 with Sézary syndrom and 1 stage IV, and 1 forsaking).
(20) Putin has made a concerted effort to woo those who forsake the west.
Forsaken
Definition:
(p. p.) of Forsake
Example Sentences:
(1) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(2) Chlamydia is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that severely challenges the patience and creativity of all its investigators--even to the point that some investigators have forsaken this field for more productive and fertile areas of research.
(3) They removed dictators, they gave ordinary men and women a voice, and perhaps most important of all, they put the problems of an oppressed, forsaken people on the global political agenda – people just like those who, before Wednesday's ceasefire, were being killed and maimed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
(4) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(5) What must have made matters worse is the absence of any discernible indication that Dyke has forsaken his former profession.
(6) But the judge warned that he would be released only when he was no longer a danger to the public and had forsaken his radical views.
(7) The real effect will [come] this summer when it’s clear they have no income.” Back on Ray Pool’s forsaken farm, this realisation is beginning to sink in.
(8) We returned to Israel so that Jewish blood may not be forsaken...
(9) "To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten," he said.
(10) Why has God forsaken us, and allowed others to reach the moon?” And now Turkey stands tall, a voice unto the nations (and Tayyip Erdoğan, from his training on the soccer pitch and a religious school, indeed has a voice, part uplift-sermon, part referee-harangue, though its rhetorical effect does not translate).
(11) The Interrogators and the guards always hinted at the “God-forsaken nowhere” I was in, but I ignored them completely, and when the guards asked me “Where do you think you are?” I just responded, “I’m not sure, but I am not worried about it; since I am far from my family, it doesn’t really matter to me where I am.” And so I always closed the door whenever they referred to the place.
(12) We are so frustrated that the leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn , seems to have forsaken the principle of international solidarity,” he said.
(13) "I sacrificed my job and now my reputation and the Egyptian media has forsaken me, there was some support before and now that is gone.
(14) As for rubbing shoulders with dictators, Ilyumzhinov does have a talent for turning up in countries most public figures have long since forsaken.
(15) Now the universities are committed only to showing that they're trying awfully hard to recruit the working classes; targets have been forsaken, and the universities will publish their provisional top-up fees this year in anticipation of - not waiting on - Harris approving them.
(16) Our study showed that for these unstable fractures, fixation with an angled plate or Ender nails should be forsaken.
(17) It was their third successive league defeat, for the first time in the Roman Abramovich era, and though the owner will never divulge his thoughts publicly it must be startling for everyone connected with the club that we are only in Bonfire Night week and Mourinho has already forsaken his record of having never lost seven times in a single season.
(18) As the power struggle rages, the people of Turkey feel betrayed and forsaken.
(19) "The international fight against Aids cannot succeed if local partners are forsaken when the political winds shift," the letter adds.
(20) We must ensure that, as online marketplaces revolutionise the way we live, laws designed to promote safety and quality-of-life are not forsaken under the pretext of innovation.” The attorney general’s report lays out an argument for why some of the site’s top hosts are gentrifying New York neighbourhoods, running illegal hotels, potentially avoiding millions in taxes and disturbing residential buildings.