Definition of "leave" []

• To go out of or away from: not allowed to leave the room. (verb-transitive)
• To go without taking or removing: left my book on the bus. (verb-transitive)
• To omit or exclude: left out the funniest part of the story. (verb-transitive)
• To have as a result, consequence, or remainder: The car left a trail of exhaust fumes. Two from eight leaves six. (verb-transitive)
• To cause or allow to be or remain in a specified state: left the lights on. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But what that if, or if not, has to do with "leave me," we cannot conjecture; but this we do venture to conjecture, that to expect our graduate ever to _leave_ Mr Turner is one of the most hopeless of all Mr Turner's "Fallacies of Hope.""
• "If you leave out his name leave out mine too—or as you like."
• "Your Reverence should know that I consider it very easy to have a house here for the accommodation of religious men; and I believe it would not be difficult (even without its being a monastery) to obtain leave to have mass said there, just as leave is often given to a private gentleman who has an oratory in his house."