forsaken
Meaning of forsaken in English
(Definition of forsaken from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of forsaken
forsaken
This is assuming the worst and that the religion is forsaken, where violations of individual rights are no longer considered violations or troubling.
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He was utterly convinced that this was because they had forsaken the traditions of protection offered by local saints and their shrines.
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One poem reveals the devastation that follows when a love affair goes bad and a woman feels herself forsaken.
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Britain had forsaken a like-minded ally only to find itself isolated in a sea of adversity.
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It looks very wild and forsaken place.
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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' (p. 5).
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That is one of the chief reasons why our people have forsaken the mills.
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He usually manifests a keen sense of humour, but for the moment it has forsaken him.
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We are told that this young man has forsaken his family name and nationality, and has taken on another name and another nationality.
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I am rather sorry that we have forsaken that because it was unique for a bottle to have that figure on it.
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Many of them are desperately lonely and forsaken.
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Many of our elderly people feel concerned and forsaken.
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What tasks and commitments will have to be forsaken to assume the new responsibilities given the targeted size?
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She described the situation of a middle-aged wife who had forsaken her career to support her husband, who then deserted her for a younger woman.
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Would they have forsaken our essential national interest in agriculture and price-fixing?
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