verzaken
Meaning
- (transitive) to renounce, to abandon
- (transitive) to neglect, to abandon
- (transitive) to betray, to abandon
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ver‧za‧ken
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vərˈzaː.kə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch versāken, from Old Dutch farsacan, from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”). Compare English forsake, Norwegian forsake, Danish forsage and Swedish försaka.
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