LEAVE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leave out mean? 

• LEAVE OUT (verb)
  The verb LEAVE OUT has 2 senses:

1. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

2. leave undone or leave out

  Familiarity information: LEAVE OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAVE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out

Context example:

Leave off the top piece

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Leave undone or leave out

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit

Context example:

The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten

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

 Context examples 

Leave out the two last lines, and there is no reason why you should not write it into your book.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Darby M'Graw!” again and again and again; and then rising a little higher, and with an oath that I leave out: “Fetch aft the rum, Darby!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Leave undone or leave out; get rid of.

(Drop, NCI Thesaurus)

And you, in turn,—or so it seems to me,—leave out the biological factor, the very stuff out of which has been spun the fabric of all the arts, the warp and the woof of all human actions and achievements.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have my alarms, but they are quite in a different quarter; and if I could have altered the weather, you would have had a good sharp east wind blowing on you the whole time—for here are some of my plants which Robert will leave out because the nights are so mild, and I know the end of it will be, that we shall have a sudden change of weather, a hard frost setting in all at once, taking everybody (at least Robert) by surprise, and I shall lose every one; and what is worse, cook has just been telling me that the turkey, which I particularly wished not to be dressed till Sunday, because I know how much more Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)