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Definitions: Leave Behind |
Leave BehindVerb1. Depart and not take along; "He left behind all his possessions when he moved to Europe". 2. Be survived by after one's death: "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats". 3. Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Leave BehindSynonyms: leave (v), leave alone (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Phrase: manet alta mente repostum; forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit; absens haeres non erit; beatae memoriae; "briefly thyself remember"; mendacem memorem esse oportet; "memory the warder of the brain"; parsque est meminisse doloris; "to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die"; vox audita peril littera scripta manet; out of sight, out of mind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Leave Behind |
| English words defined with "leave behind": abandon ♦ clear out ♦ empty ♦ forget ♦ leave ♦ Outwalk ♦ To cast off, To leave one in the lurch, To throw out ♦ vacate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leave behind": mouse trails. (references) |
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Screenplays | Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind. (The Godfather: Part III; writing credit: Mario Puzo; Francis Ford Coppola) | |
Lyrics | Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!? ("Another Brick in the Wall"; performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. |
| Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is woe to a man to leave behind him a shadow which has his form. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | But leave behind Your son, George Stanley. |
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| Language | Translations for "leave behind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | agterlaat (leave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lë pas (distance, Excel, outlive, outpace, outride, outrun, outstrip, overtake, surpass), harroj (condone, disremember, fail, forget, leave out, Miss, omit, wipe out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خلفه وراءه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оставям след себе си, оставям (abandon, confide, desert, drop off, leave, let, put, put down, quit, repudiate, resign, vacate), забравям (fail, forget, neglect, omit, put aside, put behind, unlearn), задминавам (bypass, distance, gain on, outrival, overhaul, pass, ride down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 落 (alight, drop, to drop, to fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nechat pozadu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | efterlade (leave up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nalaten (bequeath, fail, leave, leave out, make a will, neglect, omit, overlook), achterlaten (abandon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | postlasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | lata eftir seg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | laisser derrière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | benefterlitte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hinterlassen (bequeath, leave, let go behind, to leave behind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שאיר (keep over, leave, spare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elhagy (abandon, desert, forsake, forsaken, forsook, jilt, leave, let down, omit, quit, sank, sunk, throw over, to abandon, to desert, to drop out, to fall off, to forsake, to jilt, to leave behind, to mislay, to sink, to throw over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | membekaskan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lasciare (abandon, allow, desertion, evacuate, forsake, keep, leave, leaving, let, lets, loose, quit, release, relinquish, resign, slack, to assume), seminare (scatter, seed, shake off, sow, spread, to sow), distanziare (outdistance, outmarch, space), distaccare (break off, come off, detach, detail, separate), dimenticare (Bury, forget, forgive, leave, obliterate, put aside, sink, unlearn), abbandonare (abandon, abdicate, bolt, desert, discard, dismiss, dump, fail, forsake, give up, leave, let oneself go, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, Slough, surrender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 見捨てて去る (to leave behind), 置き忘れる (to forget, to leave behind, to misplace), 垂れる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), 残す (over, to, to bequeath, to leave behind, to save), 取り残す (to leave behind), 忘れ去る (to forget completely, to leave behind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), おきわすれる (to forget, to leave behind, to misplace), わすれさる (to forget completely, to leave behind), みすててさる (to leave behind), とりの"す (to leave behind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | faagail ny yei (emerge, hand on, outdistance, outmode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eavelay ehindbay pozostawić. (various references) transmitir (bequeath, carry, communicate, conduct, convey, deliver, devolve, give, hand, hand out, impartial, pass on, relay, render, report, send, superinduce, to leave, transfer, transfuse, transmit, turn over), deixar (allow, depart, drop one off, forsake, get away, go, go away, go over, have, leave, leave out, let, let go, move out, quit, release, see, step out, take one's leave, throw over, to avoid, to leave, unhand). (various references) lãsa în urmã (distance, outdistance, pass), lãsa (abandon, alight, allow, break, cast off, cease, create, diminish, discontinue, drop, fail, forsake, free, leave, let, put away, quit, relinquish, renounce, secure, settle, sink, sprout, stop, suffer, weaken), uita (forget, omit, slip). (various references) оставить (give up), ост, обогнать (outdistance, out-distance, outdrive, outride, outrun), забыть (forget). (various references) ostaviti za sobom. (various references) dejar (abandon, allow, bring in, drop, exit, finish, forget, forsake, give up, leave, leave alone, leave off, leave out, lend, let, lets, make, outdistance, outstrip, produce, put, put down, quit, release, slip, stop, to assume, wait, yield), dejar en pos. (various references) lämna kvar (leave), inte få med (omit), glömma kvar (leave). (various references) unutmak (be oblivious of, be unmindful of, forget, leave, leave out, loose sight of, neglect, omit, pass the sponge over, unlearn), iz bırakmak (etch, impress, leave trace, pit, scar, track), geride bırakmak (distance, have the drop on, leave astern, outdistance, outpace, outstrip, set back, shoot ahead of, walk away), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off). (various references) цсьrtmek (be the first). (various references) випереджати (antedate, be ahead of, forestall, get ahead of, outgo, outmarch, outpace, outride, predict, surpass), залишити після себе, забувати (efface, forget, leave, neglect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dimitto, relicta, relictae, relicti, relictis, relictisque, relicto, relictos, relictum, relictus, relinquam, relinquamini, relinquamus, relinquant, relinquas, relinquat, relinquatis, relinquatur, relinque, relinquebant, relinquebat, relinquemus, relinquens, relinquent, relinquentes, relinquentur, relinquere, relinquerentur, relinqueretur, relinqueris, relinques, relinquet, relinquetur, relinquimur, relinquit, relinquite, relinquitur, relinquo, relinquunt, relinquuntur, reliquerant, reliquerat, reliquerint, reliqueris, reliquerit, reliqueritis, reliquerunt, reliqui, reliquimus, reliquisse, reliquissent, reliquisset, reliquisti, reliquistis, reliquit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-h-i-l-n-v" | |
-3 letters: beelined, believed, deniable, enviable, evadible, headline, leavened, vendable, vendible. | |
-4 letters: aliened, alienee, anviled, bedevil, beehive, beeline, behaved, believe, beveled, delaine, deleave, enabled, havened, hidable, inhaled, livened. | |
-5 letters: aedile, aedine, alevin, alined, alvine, aneled, bailed, bailee, baleen, beadle, beaned, beanie, behave, behead, beheld, behind, belied, belive, bendee, bindle, blende, denial, devein, edible, eleven, enable, endive, envied, evened, habile, hailed, halide, halved, handle, healed, heaved, heaven, heeled, heiled, helved, inhale, invade, leaden, leaned, leaved, leaven, leveed, levied, nailed, needle, vahine, vailed, valine, vealed, veiled, veinal, veined, vendee, venial, viable, vialed, vineal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 76 65      42 65 68 69 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01100101 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a v e   B e h i n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 0076 0065      0042 0065 0068 0069 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46716788712367174758070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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