Partake vs Undertake - What's the difference?
partake | undertake |
(formal) To take part in an activity; to participate.
* John Locke
To take a share or portion (of).
(obsolete) To have something of the properties, character, or office (of).
* Francis Bacon
(label) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To second, or oppose, or undertake / The perilous attempt.
(label) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
(label) To overtake on the wrong side.
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To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
*, Bk.VII:
*:"I have now aspyed one knyght," he seyde, "that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake ."
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:And those two counties I will undertake / Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:And he was not right fat, I undertake .
* (1665-1728)
*:I dare undertake they will not lose their labour.
To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
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*:there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras // So sire Tristram endured there grete payne / for sekenesse had vndertake hym / and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue
(label) To assume, as a character; to take on.
:(Shakespeare)
(label) To engage with; to attack.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.
(label) To have knowledge of; to hear.
:(Spenser)
(label) To have or take charge of.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:Keep well those that ye undertake .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:who undertakes you to your end
In intransitive terms the difference between partake and undertake
is that partake is to take a share or portion (of) while undertake is to commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).As verbs the difference between partake and undertake
is that partake is to take part in an activity; to participate while undertake is to take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).partake
English
Verb
- Brutes partake in this faculty.
- Will you partake of some food?
- The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general.