forsake

Other forms of forsake

past tense or participle

forsaken

past tense or participle

forsook

present participle

forsaking·

third person

forsakes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forsake

What does forsake mean?

forsake means "leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch".

How many syllables are in forsake?

forsake has 2 syllables: for-sake. The stress falls on "sake". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈseɪk/.

What is another word for forsake?

Close synonyms include abandon, desolate, desert. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forsake a common word?

forsake is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with forsake?

3 words rhyme with forsake. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.