English Words: L

16,425 words · Page 98 of 329

leaveverb

To have a consequence or remnant.

leave a lot to be desiredverb

To be unsatisfactory; to fail to meet minimal standards of acceptability.

leave a markverb

Alternative form of leave one's mark.

leave a sour taste in one's mouthverb

To give one an unpleasant feeling or memory.

leave aloneverb

To stop bothering (a person).

leave asideverb

To not talk about a topic so as to allow full consideration to something else.

leave at the doorverb

To dispense with something for now; to forget about it situationally, or omit or discard it in a given place or instance.

leave behindverb

To abandon.

leave for deadverb

To abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.

leave it all on the fieldphrase

Used to remind players not to dwell on minor mistakes, issues or conflicts that happened during the course of play.

leave it all out thereverb

To strive to the limits of one's capacity; to give one's all when playing a game.

leave it at thatverb

To agree that there has been enough discussion, study, etc. and that it is time to stop.

leave little to the imaginationverb

To reveal the greater part of a person's body, or parts usually kept hidden out of modesty.

leave me alonephrase

stop talking to me, stop being near me, stop interfering with my life (used especially when one is angry, frustrated, or annoyed).

leave much to be desiredverb

Synonym of leave a lot to be desired.

leave no crumbsverb

Ellipsis of eat and leave no crumbs.

leave no stone unturnedverb

To search or investigate thoroughly.

leave no traceverb

To follow certain outdoor ethical guidelines while camping, etc., so thoroughly that it would appear as though one had never previously been there, for the sake of nature conservation.

leave nothing in the tankverb

Alternative form of empty the tank.

leave offverb

To omit.

leave onverb

To cause or allow to remain in the on or open position.

leave on the tableverb

To not accept (something on offer).

leave outverb

To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.

leave oververb

To allow a portion to remain unused or unconsumed.

leave someone coldverb

To fail to impress or make an emotional connection with someone.

leave someone high and dryverb

To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment.

leave someone holding the babyverb

To abandon someone and put them in a position where they must take the responsibility or blame.

leave someone holding the bagverb

To abandon somebody, leaving him or her holding the responsibility or blame.

leave someone in the dustverb

To completely overtake a competitor.

leave someone in the lurchverb

To abandon somebody; especially, to abandon somebody and leave him or her in a difficult situation.

leave someone on readverb

To read someone's instant message(s) without giving a response, particularly on a platform that lets one see whether a message has been viewed.

leave someone out in the coldverb

To deliberately fail to provide someone with support; to ignore or neglect.

leave someone to their fateverb

to abandon; to give up on; to leave on their own – chiefly in regard to avoid upcoming misfortune

leave someone to their own devicesverb

to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance.

leave something to be desiredverb

to be insufficient in some aspect.

leave the ball in someone's courtverb

To hand over the responsibility or choice to someone to make a decision or take action about something.

leave the chatverb

To abruptly disappear or become irrelevant.

leave the door openverb

To maintain the possibility of something happening in the future.

leave the nestverb

To leave home; to stop living with one's parents.

leave to chanceverb

Not to take care of something; not to plan for something.

leave to the imaginationverb

Not to reveal.

leave well aloneverb

Synonym of leave well enough alone.

leave well enough aloneverb

To leave something alone; to avoid trying to correct, fix, or improve what is already adequate.

leave-inadj

To be left in the hair for a period, rather than being rinsed out at once.

leave-takingnoun

The process of saying goodbye.

leavedadj

Having a leaf, leaves or folds.

leaveenoun

The person in a relationship who is left by the other.

leaveismnoun

The practice of employees using flexitime and other leave entitlement schemes to take time off when they are in fact too unwell to go to work.

leavelessadj

Without leaves; leafless

leaveletnoun

Rare form of leaflet.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter L contains 16,425 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 329 pages, and you are currently viewing page 98. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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