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forsaken

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verb

past participle of forsake

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for forsaken
Verb
  • In April 2023, Blue Island leveled another complaint against the nonprofit asking a judge to declare the property in violation of the city’s building codes, dangerous, unsafe and abandoned, court records show.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • They were abandoned in 1959 when outpaced by technology.
    Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • On his release, Stern went on to spend the 1950s ping-ponging between New York and California, for a time living on a disused laundry barge in Sausalito.
    News Desk, Artforum, 3 Mar. 2025
  • One of the most powerful scenes in Sugarcane takes place in a disused barn where, over a period of decades, Indigenous children worked under the lash.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • A lot of people have this idea of the north as being cold and desolate, and maybe people, once upon a time, lived up there, but don't anymore.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Memphis rapper began the show with dramatics, rising on a giant platform with her back to the audience as a screen behind her projected the image of a desolate street.
    John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Havel was delivering information about the agency’s plan to clear the bay of derelict vessels to comply with demands from the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
    Cameron Macdonald, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
  • As the deadline approached, people worked frantically to fix derelict vehicles.
    Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
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“Forsaken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forsaken. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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