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Leave behind   /liv bɪhˈaɪnd/   Listen
Leave behind

verb
1.
Depart and not take along.
2.
Be survived by after one's death.  Synonym: leave.  "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"
3.
Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking.  Synonyms: leave, leave alone.  "Leave the young fawn alone" , "Leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"





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"Leave behind" Quotes from Famous Books



... she must soon pass away, she was very sad, grieving for husband and daughter that she must leave behind on earth; and especially was she anxious for the future of her loving daughter. Calling the girl to the bedside, ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... reoccupation of Elandslaagte by their allies the Free Staters; and thus the battlefields of two British victories were redeemed by the defeated. It is no reproach to Yule that military necessity compelled him to leave behind the wounded of Talana Hill. The death of Symons on October 23 was a pathetic episode of the Natal Campaign. He passed away of his mortal wound while the Boers were looting the camp in which he was lying and wondering, ...
— A Handbook of the Boer War • Gale and Polden, Limited
... lord had always found the oxen for the plough teams of the villeins. In the leases of the manors of S. Paul's in the twelfth century the tenant for life received stock both live and dead, which when he entered was carefully enumerated in the lease, and at the end of the tenancy he had to leave behind the same quantity.[151] It was a common practice also, before the Black Death, for the lord to let out cows and sheep at so much per head per annum.[152] The stock and land lease therefore was no novelty. In 1410 there ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler
... you do leave—without that," he assented. "There is one thing, however, which I very sincerely hope that you will leave behind you." ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... and he stared into the darkness as if trying to pierce distance and gloom to see what sort of a shelter it was that St. Pierre's wife had over there. And there came over him in these moments a desire that was almost cowardly. It was the desire to escape, to leave behind him the memory of the rock and of St. Pierre's wife, and to pursue once more his own great adventure, the ...
— The Flaming Forest • James Oliver Curwood


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