forsaken

Would I be left alone...hungry, utterly forsaken for two whole days?

In coming to America years earlier, he had forsaken his birthright: As the oldest son of five children, he was in line to inherit the pachinko business.

An older woman looks at him and straightaway diagnoses his problem: “Have you forsaken your soul?” she asks.

“This is what happens when deterrence by punishment is forsaken,” according to Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

In this bereft, forsaken place—a place in which all landmasses have merged to form a single “supercontinent”—moisture and most animal life are merely a faded memory.