Usually means: Depart from a place permanently.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. leave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leave, leave, leave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leave, leave, leave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leave, leave: Wordnik
  7. leave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. leave: Wiktionary
  9. leave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. leave: Dictionary.com
  13. leave (n.), leave (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. leave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Leave (Get Out), Leave (U.S. military), Leave (album), Leave (legal), Leave (military), Leave, Leave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Leave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. leave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. leave: Rhymezone
  19. leave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. leave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. leave: Free Dictionary
  22. leave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. leave: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. leave: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. leave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leave: Legal dictionary
  2. leave: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. leave: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. leave: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leave: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. leave: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEAVE: Billiard Terms of the Month
  2. Leave: Croquet
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See leaved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To have a consequence or remnant.
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
verb:  (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
verb:  To depart; to separate from.
verb:  To let be or do without interference.
verb:  (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
verb:  (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
verb:  (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
verb:  To transfer something.
verb:  (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
verb:  (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
verb:  (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
noun:  (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
noun:  (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
noun:  Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
noun:  (dated or law) Permission.
noun:  (dated) Farewell, departure.
verb:  (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
verb:  (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

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