(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.
Neglected
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Neglect
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(4) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(5) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(6) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.
(7) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(8) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(9) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(10) Content-related development issues have been given little attention in the literature, yet their neglect typically results in important limitations on the usefulness of a database.
(11) However, the assessment of acceptance, of existing skills and of the ability of people to learn and absorb computer technology is still a neglected aspect in the implementation of computer systems.
(12) The discrepancy between left versus right latencies increased significantly in the secondary task condition for two patients in the neglect group but not for the other two.
(13) It was shown that neglect of this factor caused regular underestimation of the assessment of medullary doses, patients were exposed to, during x-ray procedures.
(14) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(15) A 22 year old female-to-male half-Aboriginal transsexual had been exposed to gross neglect and violence, separation and inconsistent cultural supports during childhood.
(16) Injection of a low dose of haloperidol, that has no obvious behavioral effects in normal mice, produces akinesia, catalepsy, and somatosensory neglect in MPTP-treated mice.
(17) Comparative virology has proved quite productive in a relatively short period, and is unlikely to be neglected in the future.
(18) Patients with unilateral neglect may exhibit slowness in the initiation of contralesionally directed movements in peripersonal space (directional hypokinesia).
(19) One component of the test battery was a simple test described by Albert in which patients cross out lines ruled in a standard fashion on a sheet of paper; this was easy to administer and related closely to neglect diagnosed by the test battery as a whole.
(20) Cut-off points are provided to distinguish between such age-related impairment and visuospatial neglect.