Forsake vs. Leave

Forsakeverb

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

Leaveverb

(transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.

Forsakeverb

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.

‘If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments.’;

Leaveverb

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.

‘I left my car at home and took a bus to work.’; ‘The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread.’; ‘There's not much food left. We'd better go to the shops.’;

Forsakeverb

To renounce; to reject; to refuse.

‘If you forsake the offer of their love.’;

Leaveverb

To cause, to result in.

‘The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.’; ‘Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.’;

Forsakeverb

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

‘The mother deserted her children’;

Leaveverb

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

‘Leave your hat in the hall.’; ‘We should leave the legal matters to lawyers.’; ‘I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the falling snow.’;

Leaveverb

To depart; to separate from.

Leaveverb

To let be or do without interference.

‘I left him to his reflections.’; ‘I leave my hearers to judge.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘I left the country and I left my wife.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘I left the band.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘I think you'd better leave.’;

Leaveverb

To transfer something.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

‘When my father died, he left me the house.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘Can't we just leave this to the experts?’;

Leaveverb

To remain (behind); to stay.

Leaveverb

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

Leaveverb

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

Leaveverb

To produce leaves or foliage.

Leaveverb

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

Leavenoun

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

Leavenoun

(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).

Leavenoun

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

‘I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.’;

Leavenoun

Permission.

‘Might I beg leave to accompany you?’; ‘The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.’;

Leavenoun

(dated) Farewell, departure.

‘I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.’;

Leaveverb

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

Leaveverb

To raise; to levy.

‘An army strong she leaved.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes ?’; ‘These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.’; ‘Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘Now leave complaining and begin your tea.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.’; ‘The heresies that men do leave.’;

Leaveverb

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

‘I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor.’;

Leaveverb

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.

‘Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way.’; ‘The footThat leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.’;

Leaveverb

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.

Leaveverb

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.

Leaveverb

To depart; to set out.

‘By the time I left for Scotland.’;

Leaveverb

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

‘Leave off, and for another summons wait.’;

Leavenoun

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

‘David earnestly asked leave of me.’; ‘No friend has leave to bear away the dead.’;

Leavenoun

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.

‘A double blessing is a'double grace;Occasion smiles upon a second leave.’; ‘And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren.’;

Leavenoun

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

‘a ten day's leave to visit his mother’;

Leavenoun

permission to do something;

‘she was granted leave to speak’;

Leavenoun

the act of departing politely;

‘he disliked long farewells’; ‘he took his leave’; ‘parting is such sweet sorrow’;

Leaveverb

go away from a place;

‘At what time does your train leave?’; ‘She didn't leave until midnight’; ‘The ship leaves at midnight’;

Leaveverb

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

‘She left a mess when she moved out’; ‘His good luck finally left him’; ‘her husband left her after 20 years of marriage’; ‘she wept thinking she had been left behind’;

Leaveverb

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

‘The inflation left them penniless’; ‘The president's remarks left us speechless’;

Leaveverb

leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

‘leave it as is’; ‘leave the young fawn alone’; ‘leave the flowers that you see in the park behind’;

Leaveverb

move out of or depart from;

‘leave the room’; ‘the fugitive has left the country’;

Leaveverb

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

‘This leaves no room for improvement’; ‘The evidence allows only one conclusion’; ‘allow for mistakes’; ‘leave lots of time for the trip’; ‘This procedure provides for lots of leeway’;

Leaveverb

result in;

‘The water left a mark on the silk dress’; ‘Her blood left a stain on the napkin’;

Leaveverb

remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

‘She wants to leave’; ‘The teenager left home’; ‘She left her position with the Red Cross’; ‘He left the Senate after two terms’; ‘after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes’;

Leaveverb

put into the care or protection of someone;

‘He left the decision to his deputy’; ‘leave your child the nurse's care’;

Leaveverb

leave or give by will after one's death;

‘My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry’; ‘My grandfather left me his entire estate’;

Leaveverb

have left or have as a remainder;

‘That left the four of us’; ‘19 minus 8 leaves 11’;

Leaveverb

be survived by after one's death;

‘He left six children’; ‘At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats’;

Leaveverb

tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

‘give a secret to the Russians’; ‘leave your name and address here’;

Leaveverb

leave behind unintentionally;

‘I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant’; ‘I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors’;

Leaveverb

go away from

‘the England team left for Pakistan on Monday’; ‘we were almost the last to leave’; ‘she left London on June 6’;

Leaveverb

depart from permanently

‘at the age of sixteen he left home’;

Leaveverb

cease attending (a school or college) or working for (an organization)

‘she is leaving the BBC after 20 years’;

Leaveverb

allow or cause to remain

‘the parts he disliked he would alter and the parts he didn't dislike he'd leave’;

Leaveverb

remain to be used or dealt with

‘we've even got one of the Christmas puddings left over from last year’; ‘a retired person with no mortgage left to pay’;

Leaveverb

go away from a place without taking (someone or something)

‘women had been left behind in the struggle for pay equality’; ‘we had not left any of our belongings behind’;

Leaveverb

abandon (a spouse or partner)

‘her boyfriend left her for another woman’;

Leaveverb

have as (a surviving relative) after one's death

‘he leaves a wife and three children’;

Leaveverb

bequeath (property) to a person or other beneficiary by a will

‘he left £500 to the National Asthma Campaign’; ‘Cornelius had left her fifty pounds a year for life’;

Leaveverb

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

‘I'll leave the door open’; ‘he'll leave you in no doubt about what he thinks’; ‘the children were left with feelings of loss’;

Leaveverb

let (someone) do or deal with something without offering help or assistance

‘infected people are often rejected by family and friends, leaving them to face this chronic condition alone’;

Leaveverb

cause to remain as a trace or record

‘they leave the impression that they can be bullied’; ‘dark fruit that would leave purple stains on the table napkins’;

Leaveverb

deposit or entrust to be kept, collected, or attended to

‘she left a note for me’;

Leaveverb

entrust a decision, choice, or action to (someone else, especially someone considered better qualified)

‘the choice of which link to take is generally left up to the reader’;

Leaveverb

(of a plant) put out new leaves

‘trees leaved, wild flowers burst in profusion on the far side of the lake’;

Leavenoun

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

Leavenoun

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

‘Joe was home on leave’; ‘maternity leave’;

Leavenoun

permission

‘leave from the court to commence an action’;