forsake
fawr sayk
- v leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
- The lifeboat had not forsaken the shipwrecked for it came back again and again to see if anyone was alive.
- You promised me then not to forsake me when my time comes.
- Then, in 1998, another of the firm's investments, a two-year-old women's magazine called Look (now I-Look), started to flounder, and Hung gladly offered to forsake assembly lines .