Definition of Leave out

1. Verb. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted. "Leave off the top piece"

Exact synonyms: Except, Exclude, Leave Off, Omit, Take Out
Generic synonyms: Do Away With, Eliminate, Extinguish, Get Rid Of
Specialized synonyms: Elide
Derivative terms: Exception, Exclusion, Exclusive, Omissible, Omission
Antonyms: Include

2. Verb. Leave undone or leave out. "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
Exact synonyms: Drop, Miss, Neglect, Omit, Overleap, Overlook, Pretermit
Specialized synonyms: Forget, Jump, Pass Over, Skip, Skip Over
Antonyms: Attend To
Derivative terms: Neglect, Neglecter, Omissible, Omission, Omission, Omissive, Pretermission

Definition of Leave out

1. Verb. To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention ¹

2. Verb. to omit, not include ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leave Out

leavable
leave
leave-taking
leave alone
leave behind
leave everything on the road
leave for dead
leave me alone
leave no stone unturned
leave nothing in the tank
leave nothing to the imagination
leave of absence
leave off
leave office
leave one's options open
leave out
leave over
leave somebody high and dry
leave somebody holding the bag
leave someone in the lurch
leave to one's own devices
leave well enough alone
leaved
leaveless
leaven
leavened
leavening
leavening agent
leavenings
leavenless

Literary usage of Leave out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which He by George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1773)
"8. after grantee leave out the comma. 13. after //wrj put the inverted commas. ... from the bottom, after deberet leave out the comma. 343. ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"On the question of the imputation of Christ's righteousness, if we leave out of view the moral theory of the Atonement as practically denying imputation, ..."

3. Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New-York: Began the 9th by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1861)
"... End of the Title of the Bill add these words viz* [and Preventing frauds in Conveyancing of Lands] leave out the first twenty Lines of the first Page, ..."

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