Difference between Forsake and Abandon

What is the difference between Forsake and Abandon?

Forsake as a verb is to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce. while Abandon as a verb is to give up control of, to surrender.

Forsake

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce.

Example sentence: One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.

Abandon

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give up control of, to surrender.To leave behind, to desert.To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.To relinquish a claim to property to underwriters.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Example sentence: There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

We hope you now know whether to use Forsake or Abandon in your sentence.

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