Leave
To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
To raise; to levy.
Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
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.
To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
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.
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.
To depart; to set out.
To cease; to desist; to leave off.
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Leave Quotations
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan
Leave Translations
leave in Afrikaans is verlof, laat, verlaat, vertrek
leave in Dutch is op reis gaan, afreizen
leave in German is verlassen, abfahren
leave in Latin is dimitto, excedo, egredior, discedo, licentia
leave in Norwegian is reise, permisjon, avreise, etterlate
leave in Spanish is irse, abandonar, dejar, expedir
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