Leave
verb
To go away from a place or person.
He left the house early this morning.
Often appears as...
- leave home
- leave work
verb
To allow or cause to stay behind.
Please leave the documents on my desk.
Often appears as...
- leave behind
- leave in place
verb
To lose or forget something somewhere.
I think I've left my umbrella on the train.
Often appears as...
- leave behind
- leave at
verb
To give a job or responsibility to someone else so you don't have to do it.
I'll leave the cooking to you.
Often appears as...
- leave to
- leave for
noun
A period of time when you are not at work or school.
She is on leave this week.
Often appears as...
- on leave
- sick leave
verb
To stop doing something.
Leave that alone!
Often appears as...
- leave alone
- leave off
verb
To cause or allow something to be in a certain condition.
If left untouched, it will eventually decompose.
Often appears as...
- leave open
- leave closed
verb
To give or bequeath through a will after one's death.
He left his entire estate to his only daughter.
Often appears as...
- leave estate
- leave inheritance
verb
To go away from a place or person.
He left the house early this morning.
Often appears as...
- leave home
- leave work
verb
To allow or cause to stay behind.
Please leave the documents on my desk.
Often appears as...
- leave behind
- leave in place
verb
To lose or forget something somewhere.
I think I've left my umbrella on the train.
Often appears as...
- leave behind
- leave at
verb
To give a job or responsibility to someone else so you don't have to do it.
I'll leave the cooking to you.
Often appears as...
- leave to
- leave for
noun
A period of time when you are not at work or school.
She is on leave this week.
Often appears as...
- on leave
- sick leave
verb
To stop doing something.
Leave that alone!
Often appears as...
- leave alone
- leave off
verb
To cause or allow something to be in a certain condition.
If left untouched, it will eventually decompose.
Often appears as...
- leave open
- leave closed
verb
To give or bequeath through a will after one's death.
He left his entire estate to his only daughter.
Often appears as...
- leave estate
- leave inheritance
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Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Impact
'Leave' often implies emotional significance when departing from a place or person.
She left her childhood home, teary-eyed.
Pro Tip 2/2Permanent Departure
Use 'leave' to suggest a long-term or permanent departure.
After the argument, he left for good.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Impact
'Leave' often implies emotional significance when departing from a place or person.
She left her childhood home, teary-eyed.
Pro Tip 2/2Permanent Departure
Use 'leave' to suggest a long-term or permanent departure.
After the argument, he left for good.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Impact
'Leave' often implies emotional significance when departing from a place or person.
She left her childhood home, teary-eyed.
Pro Tip 2/2Permanent Departure
Use 'leave' to suggest a long-term or permanent departure.
After the argument, he left for good.
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Ferocious Dinosaur...
unwilling to leave the nest the adult protects its offspring first by hiding
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Why do people get so...
or not doing well on a test, eats up working memory, leaving less of it available to tackle the math itself. People can suddenly struggle with even basic math skills, like arithmetic, that they've otherwise mastered. Academic anxiety certainly isn't limited to math, but it does seem to happen much more frequently,
Video examples
Why don't perpetual...
the mercury would flow to the bottom of each reservoir, leaving one side of the wheel perpetually heavier than the other. The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine,
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Can you solve the...
The dictator is suspicious but reassures himself that your statement couldn't have changed anything. You leave, and life on the island seems to go on as before. But on the hundredth morning after your visit, all the prisoners are gone,
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What makes a hero? -...
Well, you're human, just like them. The Hero's Journey myth exists in all human cultures and keeps getting updated, because we humans reflect on our world through symbolic stories of our own lives. You leave your comfort zone,
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NASA Trailblazer:...
permission to go and they said well the girls don't usually go and i said well is there a law i began attending the briefings and gradually i did more the eagle has landed when they were leaving the moon
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Can you solve the locker...
He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your relatives would pester you forever. So he is banking on the fact that he taught you everything you need to know about riddles.
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How to deal with...
hopeful I was feeling like things might work out and as I was leaving another writer arrived this writer recognized me from when I was a child and he said are you so and so's daughter and I replied yes
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The best kindergarten...
But the point is, in that kind of occasion, usually children try to hide somewhere. But here, just they leave and come back. It's a natural process. And secondly, we consider noise very important.
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10 TOP Natural History...
they must leave their icy birthplace and make their way to the sea every test they face hones skills they'll need later in life but one challenge stops them in their tracks
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Ferocious Dinosaur...
unwilling to leave the nest the adult protects its offspring first by hiding
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American Basketball Player
My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
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Will Rogers
American Actor
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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C. S. Lewis
British Writer
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Colin Powell
American Statesman
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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Vince Lombardi
American Coach
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Charlie Chaplin
English Actor
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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LeBron James
American Basketball Player
My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
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Will Rogers
American Actor
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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C. S. Lewis
British Writer
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Colin Powell
American Statesman
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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Vince Lombardi
American Coach
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Charlie Chaplin
English Actor
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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