forsake

FORSA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense forsook; participle passive forsaken. See Seek .]1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from. Friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.Forsake the foolish, and live. Proverbs 9:6.2. To abandon; to renounce; to reject.If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments - Psalms 89:30.Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Psalms 37:8.3. To leave; to withdraw from; to fail. In anger, the color forsakes the cheeks. In severe trials, let not fortitude forsake you.4. In scripture, God forsakes his people, when he withdraws his aid, or the light of his countenance