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Leave behind   /liv bɪhˈaɪnd/   Listen
Leave behind

verb
1.
Depart and not take along.
2.
Be survived by after one's death.  Synonym: leave.  "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"
3.
Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking.  Synonyms: leave, leave alone.  "Leave the young fawn alone" , "Leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"






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"Leave behind" Quotes from Famous Books



... about to leave behind them were awaiting them at the barrack-gates, with a considerable sprinkling of somewhat older girls to keep them company. Many of the poor creatures were in tears for the men whom they might never see again, ...
— Blue Lights - Hot Work in the Soudan • R.M. Ballantyne

... geographical knowledge, and made a brief reference to the difficulties and discouragements over which he triumphed on the way to success. He closed by an appeal to boys and young men to direct their ambition into worthy channels, so that even if they could not leave behind a great name, they might at least lead useful lives, and in dying have the satisfaction of thinking that they done ...
— Risen from the Ranks - Harry Walton's Success • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... the Puritans[5] is an account of the ceremony of their departure: solemnity, we might call it rather, for it was a real act of worship. Their minister went down with them to the beach, and their brethren whom they were to leave behind; all joined in solemn prayer, That God would have pity on His poor children, and go with them into that waste wilderness, for He also had made that, He was there also as well as here.—Hah! These men, I ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... she exclaimed, with some degree of bitterness. "How can I stand the storm of rage, and then the scornful sneers with which he will assail me? Accompany Hernan, I will, come what may of it. If he refuses he shall not leave behind a living bride. Scorn, pity, or anger, would be insufferable, and to all shall I be exposed ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston

... of snow. They pointed out to us a little house clinging to the rocks high up. There she is to stay until the steamer comes to take her home, to spend a summer of doubts and hopes and misgivings. Poor little woman! It is so hard for those we leave behind. I stood aside with a big lump in my throat as they said their farewell." Up there in the dark wilderness for which we were bound Hubbard talked with me frequently of ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace


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