as in abandonment
the act of abandoning
his hard-hearted forsaking of his wife and children was truly unforgivable
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as in leaving
to cause to remain behind
forsaking most of our possessions, we evacuated just before the hurricane struck
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Recent Examples of forsaking
David Morgan, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
So forsaking crossing instead of cacciatore makes infinite sense.
—Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
The story claims a heartsick Noccalula threw herself over the waterfall instead of forsaking her true love by being forced to marry another.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
Tomorrow belonged to individuals who broke the rules, forsaking protocol to act inventively.
—Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
Real estate may be the basis of all wealth, but a growing number of millionaires are forsaking homeownership and renting their residences instead.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
Dufton, who was born with a rare degenerative condition called rod-cone dystrophy, talks with Lee Cowan about how losing his sight did not lead to him forsaking his potential.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
So forsaking crossing instead of cacciatore makes infinite sense.
—Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
The story claims a heartsick Noccalula threw herself over the waterfall instead of forsaking her true love by being forced to marry another.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
Tomorrow belonged to individuals who broke the rules, forsaking protocol to act inventively.
—Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
Real estate may be the basis of all wealth, but a growing number of millionaires are forsaking homeownership and renting their residences instead.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forsaking
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Old wounds around rejection or abandonment may rise to the surface… not to punish you, but to be finally resolved.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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This language can suggest frequent pivots and abandonment of projects.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens under the cover of darkness, essentially leaving the entirety of the franchise in the city.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Indian markets are under pressure across assets, with stocks, the rupee and bonds all weakening, leaving investors banking on the budget to reset sentiment.—
Ashutosh Joshi,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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Goodbye Amazon Go Amazon is abandoning its homegrown physical grocery stores, known as Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh, a humbling end to an effort that began almost ten years ago as the online giant sought to expand its retail dominance into the brick-and-mortar world.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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But the sudden thaw in relations with Washington has fueled suspicion among hard-line chavistas that Rodríguez is abandoning the movement’s deeply anti-American ideology.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Forsaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forsaking. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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