leave off

leave off
verb
1. come to an end, stop or cease (Freq. 2)
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the road leaves off at the edge of the forest

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leave off where you started

• Hypernyms: ↑discontinue
• Verb Frames:
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Something is ——ing PP

2. prevent from being included or considered or accepted (Freq. 2)
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The bad results were excluded from the report

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Leave off the top piece

• Syn: ↑exclude, ↑except, ↑leave out, ↑omit, ↑take out
• Ant: ↑include (for: ↑exclude)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑omissible (for: ↑omit), ↑omission (for: ↑omit), ↑exception (for: ↑except), ↑exclusive (for: ↑exclude), ↑exclusion (for: ↑exclude)
• Hypernyms: ↑extinguish, ↑eliminate, ↑get rid of, ↑do away with
• Hyponyms: ↑elide
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s somebody

3. stop using
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leave off your jacket—no need to wear it here

• Hypernyms: ↑discontinue, ↑stop, ↑cease, ↑give up, ↑quit, ↑lay off
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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STOP, cease, finish, desist from, keep from, break off, lay off, give up, discontinue, refrain from, eschew; informal quit, knock off, jack in, swear off; formal forswear.
→ leave

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transitive verb
1. : to desist from : break off : stop

left off thinking about himself at all — L.C.Douglas

leave off work at five

is reluctant to leave off arguing

2. : to stop wearing or using : omit to put in the usual position

warm enough to leave his overcoat off

3. : to abandon the use of : give up

I have left off all other medicines — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa)

: to make an end : break off : stop

the rain … finally left off at noon — H.E.Bates

starts … where most writers leave off — Burke Wilkinson

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leave off
1. To desist, to terminate
2. To give up using
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Main Entry: ↑leave

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ˌleave ˈoff [intransitive/transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they leave off he/she/it leaves off present participle leaving off past tense left off past participle left off] british informal phrasal verb
to stop doing something

I wish he’d leave off moaning about everything!

Thesaurus: to stop doing somethingsynonym to kill a person or animalsynonym
Main entry: leave

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discontinue (an activity)

the dog left off chasing the sheep

■ come to an end

he resumed the other story at the point where the previous author had left off

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leave off [phrasal verb]
1 : to stop before finishing a story, conversation, etc.

Let's begin where we left off.

Where did we leave off in our conversation?

2 leave off (doing something) informal : to stop (doing something)

They finally left off trying to reach an agreement.

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Main Entry: ↑leave

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ˌleave ˈoff derived
(informal) to stop doing sth

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Start reading from where you left off last time.

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\leave off doing sth

He left off playing the piano to answer the door.

Main entry: ↑leavederived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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