LEAVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leaving mean? 

• LEAVING (noun)
  The noun LEAVING has 1 sense:

1. the act of departing

  Familiarity information: LEAVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of departing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

departure; going; going away; leaving

Hypernyms ("leaving" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leaving"):

breaking away (departing hastily)

farewell; leave; leave-taking; parting (the act of departing politely)

French leave (an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell))

disappearance; disappearing (the act of leaving secretly or without explanation)

withdrawal (the act of withdrawing)

sailing (the departure of a vessel from a port)

boarding; embarkation; embarkment (the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft)

exit (the act of going out)

despatch; dispatch; shipment (the act of sending off something)

takeoff (a departure; especially of airplanes)

 Context examples 

Then, with a sudden impulse, they all rushed in a howling crowd to the trees for shelter, leaving the ground behind them spotted with their stricken comrades.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He slouched out of the room, and half an hour afterwards left the house, leaving my father in a state of pitiable nervousness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And how will the interval between leaving England for India, and India for the grave, be filled?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sitting on the floor with one boot on, Amy began to cry and Meg to reason with her, when Laurie called from below, and the two girls hurried down, leaving their sister wailing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There could be no question, however, that someone had passed along the grass border which lines the path, and that he had done so in order to avoid leaving a track.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is because meerkat underlings are forced to take the often-fatal risk of leaving the safety of the group to find breeding opportunities, say scientists.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)

In which case, our Sun would have gathered the lion's share of dust and gas it seems, leaving its twin dark and stunted.

(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A way of entering or leaving.

(Approach, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with Bcl-Xs adenovirus vaccine induces apoptosis in Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL positive cancer cells, resulting in decreased tumor growth while leaving normal cells unaffected.

(Bcl-Xs Adenovirus Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The subjects of which her heart had been full on leaving Kellynch, and which she had felt slighted, and been compelled to smother among the Musgroves, were now become but of secondary interest.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)