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Definition of Leave
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Leave
To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. To raise; to levy. Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. 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. To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house. To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed. To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from. To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish. To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. 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. 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. To depart; to set out. To cease; to desist; to leave off. Related Definitions:
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Leave Quotations
This is me. Take it or leave it. Melanie Chisholm People either leave or they stay. Mark Thomas Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson The best artists know what to leave out. Charles de Lint It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. Barack Obama |
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Leave Translations
leave in Afrikaans is verlof, laat, verlaat, vertrek leave in Dutch is op reis gaan, afreizen leave in German is verlassen, abfahren leave in Latin is dimitto, excedo, egredior, discedo, licentia leave in Norwegian is reise, permisjon, avreise, etterlate leave in Spanish is irse, abandonar, dejar, expedir |
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