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forsake
verb as in abandon, turn one's back on
Example Sentences
“You don’t have to forsake your life to make great stuff.”
As a single mom of three children, she’ll gladly forsake the arduous cross-country commute to Washington, and also looks forward to being around when her kids get home from school.
She said the state shouldn’t forsake power sources like natural gas in favor of renewables at such a cost to energy customers.
Fallibility becomes the order of the day when those in judicial robes forsake their institutional duty to rule objectively in favor of political and ideological loyalties.
Perhaps I’m too old, too stodgy, or even too hairy to completely forsake the shirt.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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