leave
Speech parts
1. leave - Noun
2. leave - Verb
Meaning
To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
To raise; to levy.
Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.
To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.
To depart; to set out.
To cease; to desist; to leave off.
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Don't forget that God sees you and watches you when you are in pain; He perceives even the beating of your heart. Consequently, He will not leave you without consolation and His fatherly protection.
We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.
God never leaves us. We leave Him.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
The winter does not leave without a backward glance.
A dog will not leave its owner just because he is poor.