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Leave out   /liv aʊt/   Listen
Leave out

verb
1.
Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.  Synonyms: except, exclude, leave off, omit, take out.  "Leave off the top piece"
2.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"






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"Leave out" Quotes from Famous Books



... Young Dyspeptics.—If we leave out of the consideration the effects of bad food and worse cookery, there is in our estimation no other cause so active in occasioning the early breaking down of the digestive organs of our American boys. A boy of ten or twelve years of age ought to have a stomach ...
— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... promise demanded, 'It seems,' said he, 'the fairies, though living so far apart from men, are still dependent upon them for their bread, and must come down now and then to the mill for their grist, which John takes good care to leave out for them, or they would turn off the water from above, he says. When they are on their way back, they are always in good humor if they have found their grist, and are willing to take up a passenger in their boat. But ...
— The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories • Lydia Maria Child

... And under such conditions she would retire with serene contentment to her own more private sphere of Canterbury,—or, if circumstances should demand, would accept the position of guest in the house of her brother. Nor did she leave out of view her influence in the training of the boy Reuben. She cherished her own hopes of moulding him to her will, and of making him a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various

... nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation; exile &c (seclusion) 893; noninclusion^, preclusion, prohibition. separation, segregation, seposition^, elimination, expulsion; cofferdam. V. be excluded from &c; exclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect &c 460; banish &c (seclude) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... pineapple; cut it in small pieces, and leave out the core. Mix the pineapple with half a pound of powdered white sugar, and set it away in a covered dish till sufficient juice is drawn out to ...
— A Poetical Cook-Book • Maria J. Moss


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