Forsake vs. Leave — What's the Difference?

To give up (something formerly held dear); renounce

Go away from

To leave altogether; abandon

Allow or cause to remain

(transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).

Cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state or position

To decline or refuse (something offered).

(of a plant) put out new leaves

To avoid or shun (someone or something).

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces

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.

Permission

To renounce; to reject; to refuse.

To go out of or away from

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;

To go without taking or removing

To omit or exclude

To have as a result, consequence, or remainder

To cause or allow to be or remain in a specified state

To have remaining after death

To bequeath

To give over to another to control or act on

To abandon or forsake

To remove oneself from association with or participation in

To give or deposit, as for use or information, upon one's departure or in one's absence

To cause or permit to be or remain

(Nonstandard) To allow or permit; let.

To set out or depart; go

To put forth foliage; leaf.

Permission to do something.

An act of departing; a farewell

See leave of absence.

To have a consequence or remnant.

(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

To cause, to result in.

(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

To depart; to separate from.

To let be or do without interference.

(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

To transfer something.

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

To remain (behind); to stay.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

To produce leaves or foliage.

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

Permission.

(dated) Farewell, departure.

To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.

To raise; to levy.

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit - with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

To cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.

To depart; to set out.

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; - used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty;

Permission to do something;

The act of departing politely;

Go away from a place;

Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness;

Act or be so as to become in a specified state;

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

Move out of or depart from;

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Result in;

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

Put into the care or protection of someone;

Leave or give by will after one's death;

Have left or have as a remainder;

Be survived by after one's death;

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Leave behind unintentionally;