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View definitions for leave behind

leave behind

verb as in abandon

verb as in leave

verb as in lose

verb as in outdistance

verb as in pass

verb as in shake off

verb as in throw off

verb as in transcend

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Example Sentences

There are plenty of tragic and inspiring choices, but the most obvious legacy Castro will leave behind is the broken family.

If you knew you had a week left, what's more important—award statuettes or the films you leave behind?

“The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City,” Mario Batali once said.

All that You Can't Leave Behind's classic sound closed the door on Pop's excessive experimentalism.

Whenever she moved, she would leave behind a trail of small vapor clouds that resemble smoke only to the attention-challenged.

Let them, the British Government at Quebec, proceed against him; he would have only one trouble to meet, one to leave behind.

They leave behind them the thoughts which breed such dreams to trouble the sleep of those who are not of their kind.

But, although these two compositions leave behind them a pleasurable impression, they can lay only a small claim to originality.

The "first friend" is a man's wealth, which he must leave behind him when he dies.

What I have brought is something that I could not bear to leave behind.

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On this page you'll find 291 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to leave behind, such as: desert, forsake, leave, quit, reject, and renounce.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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