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Forsake vs Ignore - What's the difference?

forsake | ignore |

As verbs the difference between forsake and ignore

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

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

    *

    ignore

    English

    Verb

    (ignor)
  • To deliberately pay no attention to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored , effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (obsolete) Fail to notice.
  • Synonyms

    * misheed * neglect * turn a blind eye * unmind * unheed

    Antonyms

    * notice * recognize * watch

    Derived terms

    * ignorable

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