0 to leave someone for ever, especially when they need you: --
Do not forsake me!
1 to stop doing or having something: --
He decided to forsake politics for journalism.
2 to leave forever or to give up completely: --
He usually manifests a keen sense of humour, but for the moment it has forsaken him.
To forsake existing knowledge and connections to venture into new areas is to relinquish assets which have been accumulated.
The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics, chemistry and biology.
He is only half-gratified at recognising the disposability of nature, and he is by no means willing to forsake nature entirely.
Contemporary planning has failed precisely because it 'has forsaken the language and strategies of the urban conversation for the technical discourse of the academy and the bureaucracy'.
As we explain shortly, this thesis throws out the computational baby with the classical bathwater, and thereby forsakes the only available mechanistic understanding of intelligent behaviour.
The remarkable thing about these books is that they can entertain such emotions without forsaking their attempt to give as humanly circumstantial an impression of this lost world as possible.
One approach is to aggressively expand the innate feature set to account for all phonetically natural classes, while forsaking unnatural classes.
