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Leave Behind

Definitions: Leave Behind

Leave Behind

Verb

1. 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 Behind

Synonyms: leave (v), leave alone (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Leave Behind

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Leave Behind

English words defined with "leave behind": abandonclear outemptyforgetleaveOutwalkTo cast off, To leave one in the lurch, To throw outvacate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "leave behind": mouse trails. (references)

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Modern Usage: Leave Behind

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Leave Behind

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Leave Behind

Illustrations:
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Familiar Quotations: Leave Behind

AuthorQuotation

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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Use in Literature: Leave Behind

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Leave Behind

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 

  

(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

   

Polish

  

pozostawić. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

оставить (give up), ост, обогнать (outdistance, out-distance, outdrive, outride, outrun), забыть (forget). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ostaviti za sobom. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

lämna kvar (leave), inte få med (omit), glömma kvar (leave). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Turkmen 

  

цсьrtmek (be the first). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Leave Behind

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Anagrams: Leave Behind

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Leave Behind


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 61 76 65      42 65 68 69 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01100101 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#101 &#104 &#105 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0061 0076 0065      0042 0065 0068 0069 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46716788712367174758070

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INDEX

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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