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leave out

2 syllables
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As a verb, leave out means prevent from being included or considered or accepted.

Meanings of leave out

2 meanings

verb

  1. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted

    “The bad results were excluded from the report”

    “Leave off the top piece”

    Similar: exclude, except, leave off, omit, take out
  2. Leave undone or leave out

    “How could I miss that typo?”

    “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”

    Similar: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, overlook

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

verb: prevent from being included or considered or accepted
verb: leave undone or leave out

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