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LEAVE OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leave undone or leave out
Example:
The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
Synonyms:
drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "leave out"):
forget (forget to do something)
jump; pass over; skip; skip over (bypass)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
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 out" 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 out"):
elide (leave or strike out)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
