leave off en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
- (idiomatic, transitive) To omit.
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(informal) To desist; to cease.
Leave off hitting him!
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(intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.
2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC:We will now continue where the other team left off.
Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| leaves off | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| leaving off | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| left off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| left off | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Synonyms
exclude (omit) · pause (stop with a view to resuming) · miss off · take a break (stop with a view to resuming) · let off · let up · have done with · break off
Translations (13)
pl cichnąć (to desist) · pl przestać (to desist) · pl osłabnąć (to desist) · mi waiho atu (to desist) · de aufhören (to desist) · eo ĉesi (to desist) · mi kātirawhe (to desist) · pl ustępować (to desist) · ang āteorian (to desist) · pl ucichnąć (to desist) · pl przestawać (to desist) · pl ustąpić (to desist) · pl słabnąć (to desist)