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LEAVE OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stop using
Example:
leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "leave off" is one way to...):
cease; discontinue; give up; lay off; quit; stop (put an end to a state or an activity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Prevent from being included or considered or accepted
Example:
Leave off the top piece
Synonyms:
except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "leave off" is one way to...):
do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "leave off"):
elide (leave or strike out)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Come to an end, stop or cease
Example:
leave off where you started
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "leave off" is one way to...):
discontinue (come to or be at an end)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples:
“Oh, it'll soon leave off,” said Peggotty—I again mean our Peggotty—“and besides, you know, it's not more disagreeable to you than to us.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At first the thing was merry and pleasant enough; but when it had gone on a while, and there seemed to be no end of playing or dancing, they began to cry out, and beg him to leave off; but he stopped not a whit the more for their entreaties, till the judge not only gave him his life, but promised to return him the hundred florins.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This sudden ecstasy on the part of Mr. Peggotty was so delightful to her, that she could not leave off laughing; and the more she laughed the more she made me laugh, and the greater Mr. Peggotty's ecstasy became, and the more he rubbed his legs.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
