leave
/ˈliːv/ verb A1- 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.
- To cause, to result in. · The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.· Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.
- 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.
- To let be or do without interference. · I left him to his reflections.· I leave my hearers to judge.
- To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. · His bow and arrow never leaves him.· I left the country and I left my wife.
- 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.
- To die (the object denotes those affected by the death).
- To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. · I think you'd better leave.
Plural leave · He/she/it leaves · Past left · Past participle left · -ing form leaving
Verb forms
- Base form
- leave
- He/she/it
- leaves
- Past
- left
- Past participle
- left
- -ing form
- leaving
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Shall you never leave me again?
“Then I have leave?”
“My father is proud, sir, and if he had not a meal left, I doubt if he would have asked anything from anyone, except from Heaven.”
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
Other matches
- leave Permission to be absent B1
- leave To give leave to C2
- leave The action of the batsman not attempting to pla... C2
- leave aside To not talk about a topic so as to allow full c...
- leave off To omit.
- leave on To cause or allow to remain in the on or open p...
- leave out To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.
- leave over Give over
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