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forsake

verb

Reveal meaning and examples

To abandon or give up.

She refused to forsake her childhood dream of becoming an artist.

Dictionary practice example.

A village organizer refused to forsake an agreement to share stored materials, even when a richer settlement offered her a private reward for abandoning it.

From Changing Allegiances.

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