to leave

Exit the premises

To leave is to go away from a place or person: I'm leaving in ten minutes, She left him after twenty years.

It also means to let something remain: Leave the door open, He left his keys on the counter.

To leave something behind is to forget it or abandon it.

To leave someone alone is to stop bothering them.

Leave extends to bequeathing: She left everything to her children.

As a noun, leave is permission to be absent, especially from military duty: He's on leave until Monday.

Related

abandon · forsake · quit · desert · run away · flee · escape · slip away · vanish · disappear · goodbye · say goodbye · farewell · departure · pack up · behind · gone · drift

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Opposites
departure vs. arrival

to leaveto come

Yet to arrive

abandonment vs. retention

to leaveto keep

Maintain possession of

to take · to bring · to hold

absence vs. presence

to leaveto show

Make apparent to others

Family

leave, leaves, leaving, leaver, leavers, leavetaking, belief, believe, believes

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G