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LEAVE ALONE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
Example:
leave the flowers that you see in the park behind
Synonyms:
leave; leave alone; leave behind; let alone
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "leave alone" is one way to...):
forbear; refrain (resist doing something)
Verb group:
leave (have left or have as a remainder)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "leave alone"):
let (leave unchanged)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
