Leave(n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
Leave(n.) 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.
Leave(v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
Leave(v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
Leave(v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
Leave(v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
Leave(v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
Leave(v.) 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.
Leave(v.) 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.
Leave(v. i.) To depart; to set out.
Leave(v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.
Leave(v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
Leave(v. t.) To raise; to levy.
Leaved(a.) Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved.
Leaved(imp. & p. p.) of Leave
Leaves(n.) pl. of Leaf.
Leaves(pl. ) of Leaf
Leaving(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leave
Leaving(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leave
Leavings(n. pl.) Things left; remnants; relics.
Leavings(n. pl.) Refuse; offal.
Words within leaving