leaving

[ lee-ving ]

noun

1. something that is left; leave; left; residue.
2. leavings, leftovers or remains; refuse.

Word History and Origins

Origin of leaving¹

First recorded in 1300–50, leaving is from the Middle English word leving. See leave ¹, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

She left us—no, she was taken, for it’s wrong to imply there was any agency in her leaving—the same week as Mother’s Day.

From Time

The post The Ethics of Leaving Public Art in Outdoor Spaces appeared first on Outside Online.

From Outside Online

What’s permitted on social media is at once ill-defined and mercurial leaving creators wondering how to support themselves on a platform that could shut them out entirely without much notice.

From Quartz

Giving him a hug and leaving and not knowing if I would see him again.

From Time

Meanwhile, Soviet guards at the train station had been lured from their positions to join the leaving party at their hotel.

From MIT Technology Review

On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.

From The Daily Beast

The result is that drone operators are leaving the Air Force in droves.

From The Daily Beast

Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?

From The Daily Beast

Because of this, the peacekeeping forces have been blocking Muslims from leaving on envoys out of the country.

From The Daily Beast

It drains your body of nutrients and vitamins, attacking the central nervous system and leaving you in a dehydrated, hazy state.

From The Daily Beast

These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.

From Project Gutenberg

Janet might have said before leaving: "Tea had better not wait too long--Hilda has to be down at Clayhanger's at half-past six."

From Project Gutenberg

The governor went, but, leaving all the men who accompanied him, returned alone.

From Project Gutenberg

With this I will end this letter, leaving it in this state until it is time to seal it, in case anything should occur to be added.

From Project Gutenberg

He silenced her with a gesture, and, leaving a piece of toast half-eaten on his plate, he got up and went into his study.

From Project Gutenberg

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