Definition:
- (v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
- (v. t.) To raise; to levy.
- (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
- (n.) The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
- (v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
- (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
- (v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
- (v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
- (v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
- (v.) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.
- (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.
- (v. i.) To depart; to set out.
- (v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.
Compare leave with other words:
law vs. leave
leave vs. lift
graduate vs. leave
cat vs. leave
leave vs. out
leave vs. seave
leave vs. sleave
leave vs. leavy
cleave vs. leave
lease vs. leave
heave vs. leave
leave vs. leaved
lave vs. leave
leave vs. reave
leave vs. leaven
leave vs. weave
leave vs. leve
have vs. leave
leave vs. put
leave vs. make
leave vs. supply
beneficiary vs. leave
arrive vs. leave
leave vs. verticil
forlet vs. leave
leave vs. lever
leave vs. take
keep vs. leave
flee vs. leave
content vs. leave
leave vs. permission
leave vs. omit
await vs. leave
leave vs. null
leave vs. mobile
abandoned vs. leave
lead vs. leave
leave vs. withdraw
leave vs. resign
example vs. leave
leave vs. miss
leave vs. left
leave vs. monkshood
leave vs. leaver
exeunt vs. leave
ditch vs. leave
leave vs. live
entrust vs. leave
discharged vs. leave
discharge vs. leave
emigrate vs. leave
devise vs. leave
leave vs. traduce
leave vs. outstrip
leave vs. skip
leave vs. shoo
leave vs. vacate
egress vs. leave
chuck vs. leave
leave vs. remove
git vs. leave
diptych vs. leave
evacuate vs. leave
dismiss vs. leave
bounce vs. leave
leave vs. roll
avoid vs. leave
leave vs. quire
holiday vs. leave
desert vs. leave
leave vs. sabbatical
dash vs. leave
leave vs. will
dust vs. leave
leave vs. split
leave vs. mislay
foliage vs. leave
leaf vs. leave
grant vs. leave
leave vs. permit
departure vs. leave
allow vs. leave
batsman vs. leave
leave vs. time
leave vs. work
forleave vs. leave
beleave vs. leave
forget vs. leave
leave vs. stay
leave vs. membership
affiliation vs. leave
end vs. leave
leave vs. refrain
leave vs. remain
available vs. leave
come vs. leave
blow vs. leave
exit vs. leave
leave vs. quit
jump vs. leave
leave vs. subjunctive
leave vs. walk
leave vs. renounce
leave vs. let
forsake vs. leave
leave vs. war
absquatulate vs. leave
abandon vs. leave
head vs. leave