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Leave: Meanings, Examples, and Usage Guide (2 meaning)

Meaning 1：depart (leave)

leave 🔊

/liːv/

To go away from a place or person.

Person leaving through front door with backpack waving goodbye

depart 🔊

➕

/dɪˈpɑːrt/

To go away from a place or person, moving elsewhere.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

Old English 'lǣfan' (to let remain); Proto-Germanic *laubijaną.

💡 Mnemonic

Picture 'leave' as 'leaf': when a leaf falls, it leaves the tree.

📖 Example

I waved goodbye and leave the house to drive to work. 🔊 I waved goodbye and depart from the house to drive to work.

🔗 Collocations

leave home – to depart from one's house

leave the office – to exit the workplace

leave work – to finish and go away from one's job for the day

🔄 Synonyms

depart (v.) – to leave a place, especially to start a journey

exit (v.) – to go out of or away from a place

go away (v.) – to move or travel away from a place

🚫 Antonyms

arrive (v.) – to reach a place, especially at the end of a journey

stay (v.) – to remain in the same place

remain (v.) – to continue to be in the same place

🌱 Derivatives

leaver (n.) – a person who leaves an organization or place

departure (n.) – the act of leaving a place

📖 Cultural Story

In Old English, 'lǣfan' meant 'to let remain'. The modern 'go away' sense emerged around 1200, from the idea of 'leaving behind' a place.

Meaning 2：leave behind (leave)

leave 🔊

/liːv/

To not take something with you when you go away; to let something remain.

Forgotten keys left alone on wooden kitchen table

leave behind 🔊

➕

/liːv bɪˈhaɪnd/

To not take something with you when you go away; to let something remain in its place.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Example

Don't leave your umbrella at my house again; it might rain tomorrow! 🔊 Do not leave your umbrella behind at my house again; it might rain tomorrow!

🔗 Collocations

leave behind – to fail to bring something when departing

leave at home – to forget to bring something from one's residence

leave with someone – to entrust something to stay with a person

🔄 Synonyms

forget (v.) – to fail to remember to bring something

abandon (v.) – to leave something behind intentionally or unintentionally

misplace (v.) – to put something in the wrong place and then forget where it is

🚫 Antonyms

take (v.) – to carry or bring something with you

bring (v.) – to carry something to a place

keep (v.) – to have something with you or in your possession

🌱 Derivatives

leftover (adj./n.) – something that remains, especially food not eaten

leavings (n.) – things that have been left or discarded