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Definition of Leave out
1. Verb. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted. "Leave off the top piece"
Generic synonyms: Do Away With, Eliminate, Extinguish, Get Rid Of
Specialized synonyms: Elide
Derivative terms: Exception, Exclusion, Exclusive, Omissible, Omission
Antonyms: Include
2. Verb. Leave undone or leave out. "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
Specialized synonyms: Forget, Jump, Pass Over, Skip, Skip Over
Antonyms: Attend To
Derivative terms: Neglect, Neglecter, Omissible, Omission, Omission, Omissive, Pretermission
Definition of Leave out
1. Verb. To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention ¹
2. Verb. to omit, not include ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leave Out
Literary usage of Leave out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which He by George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1773)
"8. after grantee leave out the comma. 13. after //wrj put the inverted commas.
... from the bottom, after deberet leave out the comma. 343. ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"On the question of the imputation of Christ's righteousness, if we leave out of
view the moral theory of the Atonement as practically denying imputation, ..."
3. Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New-York: Began the 9th by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1861)
"... End of the Title of the Bill add these words viz* [and Preventing frauds in
Conveyancing of Lands] leave out the first twenty Lines of the first Page, ..."
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