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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