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"leave" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often depart (6 letters).
Definitions
To go away, depart, or let something remain.
Word origin
From Middle English leven, from Old English lǣfan (“to leave”), from Proto-West Germanic *laibijan, from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to let stay, leave”), causative of *lībaną (“to stay, remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick; fat”).
Used in a sentence
“I left my car at home and took a bus to work.”
“The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread.”
“There's not much food left. We'd better go to the shops.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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