leave off

English

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Verb

leave off (third-person singular simple present leaves off, present participle leaving off, simple past and past participle left off)

(transitive, idiomatic) To omit.
(informal) To desist; to cease.
Leave off hitting him!
(intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
- 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC‎:
  The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
  Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.

Synonyms

(omit): exclude, miss off; see also Thesaurus:omit
(desist): break off, have done with; see also Thesaurus:desist
(stop with a view to resuming): pause, take a break

Translations

to desist

Esperanto: ĉesi (eo)
Maori: kātirawhe, waiho atu

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