Synonyms for leave off
leave off

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1. leave off

   Strains of music may gradually or suddenly cease. A man quits work on the instant; he may discontinue a practise gradually; he quits suddenly and completely; he stops short in what he may or may not resume; he pauses in what he will probably resume. What intermits or is intermitted returns again, as a fever that intermits. Compare ABANDON; DIE; END; REST.

   Synonyms:
   abstain, bring to an end, cease, come to an end, conclude, desist, discontinue, end, end, finish, give over, intermit, pause, quit, refrain, stop, terminate

   Antonyms:
   begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, set about, set going, set in operation, set on foot, start

   Preposition:
   Cease from anger.

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1. leave offverb

   come to an end, stop or cease

   "the road leaves off at the edge of the forest"; "leave off where you started"

   Synonyms:
   take out, except, exclude, omit, leave out

2. exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take outverb

   prevent from being included or considered or accepted

   "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"

   Synonyms:
   except, ask out, overleap, demur, move out, boot out, withdraw, pull up, draw, turf out, shut, buy food, unpack, debar, leave out, pull, pretermit, get out, take out, keep out, excerpt, exclude, draw out, chuck out, neglect, bar, turn out, pull out, drop, eject, draw off, invite out, overlook, take away, miss, extract, shut out, remove, omit

3. leave offverb

   stop using

   "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here"

   Synonyms:
   take out, except, exclude, omit, leave out

Matched Categories

1. • Discontinue
   • Eliminate
   • Stop

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. leave off

   Synonyms:
   (Active.) forbear, desist from, break off

2. leave off

   Synonyms:
   (Neuter.) desist, stop, leave

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How to use leave off in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   What Giuliani is, I think, trying to say is that not everything that Mueller might ask about is a fact. The example he cites is how former FBI Director James Comey has said that Trump asked him to leave off the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn while Trump has insisted no such conversation took place.

2. Johann Most:

   If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

3. Thomas Carlyle:

   When words leave off, music begins.