Sunday, 4 August 2024

Changing words

forsake
verb
LITERARY
past participle: forsaken
  1. abandon or leave.
    "he would never forsake Tara"
    Similar:
    abandon
    desert
    leave
    quit
    depart from
    leave behind
    leave high and dry
    turn one's back on
    cast aside
    give up
    reject
    disown
    break (up) with
    jilt
    strand
    leave stranded
    leave flat
    leave in the lurch
    throw over
    cast aside/off
    betray
    run/walk out on
    rat on
    drop
    dump
    ditch
    chuck
    give someone the push
    give someone the elbow
    give someone the big E
    bin off
    give someone the air
    abandoned
    deserted
    jilted
    stranded
    discarded
    shunned
    renounced
    betrayed
    rejected
    disowned
    dropped
    dumped
    ditched
    desolate
    bleak
    godforsaken
    remote
    isolated
    sequestered
    lonely
    solitary
    derelict
    dreary
    forlorn
    uninviting
    cheerless
    depressing
    sad
    Opposite:
    stay with return to
    • renounce or give up (something valued or pleasant).
      "I won't forsake my vegetarian diet" 
Origin
Old English forsacan ‘renounce, refuse’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch verzaken, and ultimately to for- and sake1.



So, how would latterly "for refusing" mean abandon? 

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