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Verb (left)

1. Go away from.

she left London on June 6

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2. Depart from permanently.

at the age of sixteen he left home

3. Cease attending (a school or college) or working for (an organization)

she is leaving the BBC after 20 years

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4. Allow or cause to remain.

Additionally, if you leave an empty non-stick pan on a hot burner too long, you can roast the surface.

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5. (be left) Remain to be used or dealt with.

It actually contains a fucshia that is left over from the summer planting.

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6. Go away from a place without taking (someone or something)

Because the skeleton is left behind we all go to our heavens without one.

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7. Abandon (a spouse or partner)

her boyfriend left her for another woman

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8. Have as (a surviving relative) after one's death.

As well as her parents and sister, she leaves a niece Kim and nephew Josh.

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9. Bequeath (property) to a person or other beneficiary by a will.

Cornelius had left her fifty pounds a year for life

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

I'll leave the door open

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11. Let (someone) do or deal with something without offering help or assistance.

Then they said if he was a friend they would leave him to look after me.

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12. Cause to remain as a trace or record.

they leave the impression that they can be bullied

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13. Deposit or entrust to be kept, collected, or attended to.

she left a note for me

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Noun

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

Leave behind

1. (leave someone or something behind, leave behind someone or something) Go away from a place without taking someone or something.

we had not left any of our belongings behind

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Leave out

1. (leave someone or something out, leave out someone or something) Fail to include someone or something.

I left out the fact that the quote is from Benjamin Franklin

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Leave to

1. (leave something to someone) 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

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Leave over

1. (be left over) Remain to be used or dealt with.

if you have some money left over, you should put it in a rainy day fund

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Leave off

1. (also British leave off something) Discontinue an activity.

He must start every day where he had to leave off the previous evening.

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2. (leave someone or something off, leave off someone or something) Fail to include someone or something on a list.

he had left him off the list of beneficiaries of his estate

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Origin

1. Old English lǣfan ‘bequeath’, also ‘allow to remain, leave in place’ of Germanic origin; related to German bleiben ‘remain’.

Noun

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

Joe was home on leave

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2. Permission.

the Secretary of State wishes to seek leave to appeal

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Origin

1. Old English lēaf ‘permission’, of West Germanic origin; related to lief and love.

Verb

1. (of a plant) put out new leaves.

trees leaved, wild flowers burst in profusion on the far side of the lake.

Origin

1. Middle English from the same Germanic base as leaf.

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