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verb (v)

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  abandon, desert, desolate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.(verb)

  source: webster1913