Abolish vs Forsake - What's the difference?
abolish | forsake |
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
* 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):
(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
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To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.
to give up, relinquish
to denounce (the devil)
As verbs the difference between abolish and forsake
is that abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice while forsake is to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.abolish
English
Verb
(es)- Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
- And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
- His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.