forsake :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"

empty, abandon, vacate

v. leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"

drop

v. change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon"

leave, depart

v. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

throw, cast, drop, shed, cast off, throw away, shake off, throw off

v. get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"

renounce, turn away from, quit, relinquish, foreswear

v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"

disinherit, disown

v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

abjure, recant, forswear, retract

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate

v. abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

abandon, give up

v. give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"

shun, eschew

v. avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

predate, antedate, precede, forego, antecede

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

swear off, promise to abstain from

v. promise to abstain from; "I have sworn off cigarettes altogether"

stick, cling, adhere, cohere

v. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"

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