forsake
verb (used with object)
to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert.
was forsaking
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past progressiveof forsake.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Frank says there was no hesitation about jilting Evans for Kerouac, but informing his mentor that he was forsaking him for Kerouac ‘‘was a difficult moment.’’
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2015
But just because he recorded other songwriters' songs, doesn't mean he was forsaking publishing.
From Reuters ● May 31, 2010
Yeltsin's abrupt abandonment of his acting Prime Minister, free- market maven Yegor Gaidar, made the announcement a relief for those who feared that the Russian President was forsaking the country's radical reform path altogether.
From Time Magazine Archive
He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Presently she raised it again and said, "But, according to what you said the other day, in doing so he was forsaking altogether the duties of the station in which God had called him."
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
