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View synonyms for leave out

leave out

verb

  1. to cause to remain in the open

    you can leave your car out tonight

  2. to omit or exclude
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Omit, fail to include, as in This sentence doesn't make sense; a key word has been left out . [Late 1400s]
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Example Sentences

Careful not to leave out the ladies, GQ awarded Emma Watson with this year's Best Woman award.

My favorite was No. 10: “Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.”

Elsa Maxwell was famous for being famous, a gossip columnist and party planner who knew whom to invite and whom to leave out.

But to leave out Parks and Recreation, which had one of its best and most nuanced seasons to date, is particularly myopic.

It would be a shame to leave out some of the delightful asides and digressions that fill the book.

I suspect that you leave out in your own definition the element of Action, which seems to me inseparable from it.

In listening to accounts of Chopin's style of playing, we must not leave out of consideration the time to which they refer.

Pare your pineapple; cut it in small pieces, and leave out the core.

Here is another that I cannot leave out: Haydn dedicated one of his most important instrumental compositions to his mother.

For we purposely leave out of sight innumerable facts in regard to its influence on nutrition, temperature, etc.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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