forlet

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US /fɔrˈlɛt/ UK /fɔːˈlɛt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

verb
to abandon, relinquish, or give up

He would not forlet the old homestead despite every hardship.

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Synonyms

1 verb · to abandon, relinquish, or... abandon relinquish forsake desert quit surrender

Opposites

keep retain hold

Word family

Related forms letlet go

Etymology

From Old English forlǣtan ('to let go, abandon, leave'), combining the privative prefix for- with lǣtan ('to let, allow'). Now obsolete or archaic.

forlætan Old English lætan Old English

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# forlet

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /fɔrˈlɛt/
**IPA (UK):** /fɔːˈlɛt/

## Meanings
1. to abandon, relinquish, or give up

## Examples
- He would not forlet the old homestead despite every hardship.

## Synonyms
- abandon
- relinquish
- forsake
- desert
- quit
- surrender

## Antonyms
- keep
- retain
- hold

## Related Forms
- let
- let go

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: forlætan
- Root: lætan

## Etymology
From Old English forlǣtan ('to let go, abandon, leave'), combining the privative prefix for- with lǣtan ('to let, allow'). Now obsolete or archaic.

## AI Etymology
Forlet comes from Old English forlǣtan ('to let go, abandon, leave'), combining the privative prefix for- with lǣtan ('to let, allow'). Now obsolete or archaic. The development is chiefly inherited within English and its older relatives, with the later form continuing material already present in the language's ancestry. In present use, it is used as a verb meaning "to abandon, relinquish, or give up", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes related forms such as let and let go, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Old English forlætan and Old English lætan, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance. Its semantic neighborhood is marked by abandon, relinquish, forsake, and desert on one side and contrasts such as keep, retain, and hold on the other, locating the modern specialization without adding a new origin story.

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