All leave synonyms
leave
L l verb leave
- defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
- put off — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- knock off — an act or instance of knocking.
- give notice — warn, inform
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- let be — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- hand down — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- give over — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
interjection leave
- begone — go away!
- offed — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
- offing — the state or fact of being off.
- outs — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- skiddoo — to go away; get out.
- shoo — to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
noun leave
- odds and ends — miscellaneous items, matters, etc.
- orts — Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.