Verb

To precede, to go before.

* Wordsworth

pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone

Verb

; to abandon, to relinquish

* 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:

[…] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.

Verb

To have a consequence or remnant.

#To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

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#To cause, to result in.

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#(lb) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

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#*Bible, (w) v. 24

#*:Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:The foot / That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.

(lb) To depart; to separate from.

#To let be or do without interference.

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#(lb) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

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#(lb) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

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#(lb) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

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(lb) To transfer something.

#(lb) To transfer possession of after death.

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#(lb) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

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#(lb) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

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To remain (behind); to stay.

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*:And whanne sire launcelot sawe them fare soo / he gat a spere in his hand / and there encountred with hym al attones syr bors sir Ector and sire Lyonel / and alle they thre smote hym atte ones with their speres // and by mysfortune sir bors smote syre launcelot thurgh the shelde in to the syde / and the spere brake / and the hede lefte stylle in his syde

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) V:

*:When he had leeft speakynge, he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nette to make a draught.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Now leave complaining and begin your tea.

Verb

To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

Verb

(rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed.

* 1868 , , The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám , 2nd edition:

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:

Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Verb

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

* Spenser

An army strong she leaved .