different between vacate vs forsake

English

Etymology

From Latin vac?tus, perfect participle of vac?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

vacate (third-person singular simple present vacates, present participle vacating, simple past and past participle vacated)

1. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.

   I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.

   You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days.

2. To leave an office or position.

   He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.

3. (law) To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.

   The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.

4. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.

   If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!

Related terms

• vacant
• vacation
• evacuate

Translations

Anagrams

• caveat

Italian

Verb

vacate

1. second-person plural present indicative of vacare
2. second-person plural imperative of vacare
3. feminine plural of vacato

Anagrams

• cavate, taceva

Latin

Verb

vac?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vac?

English

Etymology

From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from; to deny, reject, shun; to betray; to divorce (a spouse); to disown; to be false to (one's nature, vows, etc.; to give up, renounce, surrender; to discard; to omit; to decline, refuse, reject; to avoid, escape; to cease, desist; to evade, neglect; to contradict, refute; to depart, leave; to become detached, separate”) [and other forms], from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘away, off’) + *sakan? (“to charge; to dispute”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh?g- (“to seek out”)). The English word can be analysed as for- +? sake, and is cognate with Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic ???????????????????? (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???se?k/, /f?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f???se?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k
• Hyphenation: for?sake

Verb

forsake (third-person singular simple present forsakes, present participle forsaking, simple past forsook, past participle forsaken)

1. (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).
3. (transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).

Conjugation

• Archaic second-person singular simple present form: forsakest
• Archaic third-person singular simple present indicative form: forsaketh

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• forsake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• forsake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• freakos

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• forsage

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German vorsaken, from Old Saxon farsakan, from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”).

Verb

forsake (imperative forsak, present tense forsaker, simple past and past participle forsaka or forsaket, present participle forsakende)

1. to give up, relinquish, forsake
2. to denounce (the devil)

Derived terms

• forsakelse

References

• “forsake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.