leave behind

Verb

Meaning

leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking

be survived by after one's death

depart and not take along

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Examples

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. Paddy Ashdown

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind. Native American Proverb

We will be known by the tracks we leave behind. Native American Proverb

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