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Forsake vs Abandoned - What's the difference?

forsake | abandoned |

As verbs the difference between forsake and abandoned

is that forsake is to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce while abandoned is (abandon).

As an adjective abandoned is

self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain .

forsake

English

Verb

  • To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.

    • References

    * * Notes: English irregular verbs English words prefixed with for- ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • to give up, relinquish
  • to denounce (the devil)

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    References

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    abandoned

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents
  • * (rfdate), Thomson:
  • Free from constraint; uninhibited.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
  • (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

    • Derived terms

    * abandonedness

    Synonyms

    * deserted * forsaken * corrupt * depraved * dissolute * graceless * reprobate * unprincipled * vicious * vile * wicked

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abandon)

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