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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. v. To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention
  2. v. to omit, not include

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. prevent from being included or considered or accepted
  2. v. leave undone or leave out

Examples

  • “If you leave out those raven squawks—those rests—and you only count the blackbirds on the line, you are not going to be able to say this couplet the way Mr. Dryden meant it to be said.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE ANTHOLOGIST

  • “P.S. The variations are rather difficult to play, especially the shake in the Coda; but do not be alarmed at this, being so contrived that you only require to play the shake, and leave out the other notes, which also occur in the violin part.”

    Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2

  • “Wilson's peace proposal, 207; implores Wilson to leave out the “peace without victory” phrase from his speech, 213; learns of Bernstorff's dismissal, 215; memorandum of his final judgment of Wilson's foreign policy to”

    The Life and Letters of Walter H Page

  • “Anyway, we got the Farradays on this tour and, according to J.C., who's only just barely speaking, there were four others, leave out them and Honeycutt: a Lady Dew and her niece, Cyclamen — talk about names! —”

    the dirty duck

  • “Find one you love enough to leave out for storing your bottles and barware full-time.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Swell Dressed Party

  • “Contrariwise, you cannot leave out the i in “baiting a hook,” from the Old Norse beita, “to cause to bite,” which will work on fish if you bait the hook properly.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

  • “In a succeeding edition, however, I am not at all sure that I shall not leave out the second part of the 'Church of Brou.”

    Matthew Arnold

  • “Barring words used in their proper sense, and similar borrowings from waking habit, the so-called symbols in dreams are essentially impromptu fabrications, in which the association is not a direct causal connection between A and C, but a mediate association involving a third element, which psycho-analysts usually leave out of account.”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

  • “I leave out the part about how Andrew as good as confessed to me at the Wexton PD.”

    Simon & Schuster: VANISHING ACTS

  • “[691] During the period subsequent to Acts it is no longer possible, so far as I know, to prove the use of mathētai (without the addition of tou kurion or Christou) as a term used by all adherents of Jesus to designate themselves; that is, if we leave out of account, of course, all passages — and they are not altogether infrequent — in which the word is not technical.”

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries

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