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LEAVE BEHIND
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
Example:
leave the flowers that you see in the park behind
Synonyms:
leave; leave alone; leave behind; let alone
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "leave behind" is one way to...):
forbear; refrain (resist doing something)
Verb group:
leave (have left or have as a remainder)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "leave behind"):
let (leave unchanged)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be survived by after one's death
Example:
At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats
Synonyms:
leave; leave behind
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
"Leave behind" entails doing...:
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)
Verb group:
leave behind (depart and not take along)
bequeath; leave; will (leave or give by will after one's death)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "leave behind"):
widow (cause to be without a spouse)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Depart and not take along
Example:
He left behind all his possessions when he moved to Europe
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
"Leave behind" entails doing...:
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Verb group:
leave; leave behind (be survived by after one's death)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "leave behind"):
distance; outdistance; outstrip (go far ahead of)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
