forsake
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
The mother deserted her children
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- desertion derivation
- forsaking derivation
- forlornness derivation
- defector derivation
- ratter derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | desertion |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forsaking |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forlornness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defector |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ratter |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | leave |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | expose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | walk out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ditch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | strand |