forsake

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /fɔːˈseɪk/|/fə-/    美 /fɔɹˈseɪk/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something). transitive
    — Doeſt thou forſake the deuill and all his workes? / Aunſwere. I forſake them.
  2. To decline or refuse (something offered). obsolete,transitive
    — The youthful Bull muſt wander in the Wood; / Behind the Mountain, or beyond the Flood: / [...] / With two fair Eyes his Miſtreſs burns his Breaſt; / He looks and languiſhes, and leaves his Reſt; / Forſakes his Food, and pining for the Laſs, / Is joyleſs of the Grove, and ſpurns the growing Graſs.
  3. To avoid or shun (someone or something). obsolete,transitive
    — This was that Pascall lambe [i.e., Jesus] whose loue for vs so stood, / That on the mount of Caluerie, for vs did shed his blood: / Where hanging on the Crosse, no shame he did forsake, / Till death giuen him by pearcing speare, an ende of life did make.
  4. To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something). obsolete,transitive
    — Theſe birds, on the continent of America, continue to flutter the year round; as their food, which is the honey of flowers, never forſakes them in thoſe warm latitudes where they are found.

词形变化

forsakes present,singular,third-person forsaking participle,present forsook past forsaken participle,past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template forsake infinitive forsake first-person,present,singular forsook first-person,past,singular forsake present,second-person,singular forsakest archaic,present,second-person,singular forsook past,second-person,singular forsookest archaic,past,second-person,singular forsakes present,singular,third-person forsaketh archaic,present,singular,third-person forsook past,singular,third-person forsake plural,present forsook past,plural forsake present,subjunctive forsook past,subjunctive forsake imperative,present - imperative,past forsaking participle,present forsaken participle,past

词汇关系

衍生词
forsaken forsakenly forsakenness forsaker forsaking godforsaken godforsakenly godforsakenness unforsaken

词源

From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from”), from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”). By surface analysis, for- + sake.
Cognates include Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .
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