Definition of Leave off

1. Verb. Come to an end, stop or cease. "Leave off where you started"

Generic synonyms: Discontinue

2. Verb. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted. "Leave off the top piece"
Exact synonyms: Except, Exclude, Leave Out, 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

3. Verb. Stop using. "Leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here"
Generic synonyms: Cease, Discontinue, Give Up, Lay Off, Quit, Stop

Definition of Leave off

1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) to omit ¹

2. Verb. (informal) To desist; to cease. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leave Off

leatwright
leatwrights
leaue
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 (current term)
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

Literary usage of Leave off

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

1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"... therefore, leave off to persuade me further; I am his servant, and I will follow him. Apol. Consider, again, when thou art in cool blood, what thou art ..."

2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"We are thus brought to the Park and the Palace, to the meeting of the illuminati, and the romance of a week. WHEN TO leave off. ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... the bitterest foe To modern laws, has felt their blow, Consented to be taxed, and vote, And put on pantaloons and coat, And leave off cattle-stealing. ..."

4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1915)
"... for I never gave my consent to any such actions: for I often told them, if they did not leave off committing such robberies, I would leave the sloop; ..."

5. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"I find I begin to talk nonsense, and 'tis time to leave off. Pray, my dear, write to me, or I shall be very mad. TO EW MONTAGU, ESQ. No date. ..."

6. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"The novelty was that as the habit of reading spread to a lower social stratum, literature had to adopt new ideals, and to leave off some of the fine lace ..."

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