All forsake synonyms
for·sake
F f verb forsake
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- forgo — to abstain or refrain from; do without.
- forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- disown — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- jettison — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- set aside — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- disclaim — to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
- abdicate — If a king or queen abdicates, he or she gives up being king or queen.
- jilt — to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
- yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- resign — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
- cast off — If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you.
- throw over — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- run out on — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- change one's tune — to alter one's attitude or tone of speech
- wash one's hands of — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.