Leave
Definition of Leave
Pronunciation: lĕft | v. i. | 1. | To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out. | | v. t. | 1. | To raise; to levy. | | n. | 1. | Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. | | 2. | 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. t. | 1. | To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house. | | 2. | To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. - Matt. xxiii. 23. | | 3. | To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from. | | 4. | To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish. | | 5. | To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. | | 6. | 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. | | 7. | 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. | | 8. | to cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills. | | v. i. | 1. | To depart; to set out. | | 2. | To cease; to desist; to leave off. |
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