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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

leave over en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, transitive) To allow a portion to remain unused or unconsumed.
    • The family leaves over enough food from Sunday dinner for Monday lunch and dinner.
  2. Give over; stop it!
    • "Oh, leave over!" he whispered urgently. 1924, Collier's, volume 73, page 92:

Forms

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