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Leavest vs Leakest - What's the difference?

leavest | leakest |

In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between leavest and leakest

is that leavest is (archaic) (leave) while leakest is (archaic) (leak).

As verbs the difference between leavest and leakest

is that leavest is (archaic) (leave) while leakest is (archaic) (leak).

leavest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (leave)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1878, author=Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella, title=Sonnets, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But thou, thyself not knowing, leavest all For a poor price to strangers; since thy head Is weak, albeit thy limbs are stout and good. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Madge Morris, title=Debris, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Each loved one that thou leavest here, Some other love may wear, Each heart will have some other heart Its loneliness to share. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles Alfred Downer, title=Frédéric Mistral, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="My head is bursting, and since from the heights of my supernatural love a thunderbolt thus hurls me down, since, nothing, nothing henceforth, from this moment on, can give me joy, since, cruel woman, when thou couldst throw me a rope, thou leavest me, in dismay, to drink the bitter current--let death come, black hiding-place, bottomless abyss! let me plunge down head first!" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1544-1595, author=Edward Fairfax (1560-1635);, title=Jerusalem Delivered, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=XXXVI "Whither, O cruel! leavest thou me alone?" }}

    leakest

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (leak)
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    leak

    English

    Noun

    (leak) (en noun)
  • A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
    • a leak in a roof
    a leak in a boat
    a leak in a gas pipe
  • The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
    • The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
  • A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret until then.
    • The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
  • The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.
    • The press must have learned about the plan through a leak .
  • (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
    • resource leak
    memory leak
  • An act of urination.
    • I have to take a leak .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
    • The faucet has been leaking since last month.
  • To reveal secret information.
    • ''Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Leaky.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
    • Yet is the bottle leake , and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].

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