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leave out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.
    • But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
    • The journalist decided to leave the sleaze out of her story.
    • The journalist decided to leave out certain details from her story.
    • Capello mystifyingly left Ashley Young out despite a match-winning display in the Euro 2012 qualifier win in Wales in March and he only underlined the folly of the decision by emerging as substitute at half-time and striking a fine equaliser six minutes after coming on. 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
  2. (informal) To cease or desist from (a behaviour or activity); see also leave it out.
    • Hey! Leave out the complaining now, will you?
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, out.
    • After breakfast, there were still some ingredients left out that needed to be put away.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
leaves out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
leaving out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
left out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
left out Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

leave it out

Synonyms

exclude · omit · miss out

Translations (5)

pl opuszczać (to leave out or to not include; to omit) · pl pomijać (to leave out or to not include; to omit) · es dejar de lado (to leave out or to not include; to omit) · pl opuścić (to leave out or to not include; to omit) · pl pominąć (to leave out or to not include; to omit)