leave off
Britishverb
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(intr) to stop; cease
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(tr, adverb) to stop wearing or using
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Stop, cease; also, stop doing or using. For example, Mother told the children to leave off running around the house , or Please use a bookmark to show where you left off reading . [c. 1400]
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leave something off . Omit, as in We found she had left off our names .
Example Sentences
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Being genuinely curious about what the person has said makes it easier to carry on the conversation from wherever they leave off.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
"There's a big awareness gap, there's a complexity problem and there's a challenge about most men feeling uncomfortable taking leave off the mother of their child."
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2024
A future interstellar mission to continue where Voyager 1 and 2 leave off could also further clarify the heliosphere’s complex shape.
From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2023
Stokes countered with examples of coroners in rural and conservative communities who said they had been asked by families to leave off covid as a cause of death.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023
I’d ordered a vegetarian taco, and Mom had even made sure to ask them to leave off the cilantro without adding a comment about my lack of Mexican taste buds.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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