Usually means: Abandons, gives up something valued.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. forsakes: Merriam-Webster
  2. forsakes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. forsakes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Forsakes, forsakes: Wordnik
  5. forsakes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. forsakes: Wiktionary
  7. forsakes: Dictionary.com
  8. forsakes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. forsakes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forsakes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See forsake as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (forsake)

verb:  (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).
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