英语词汇“leave off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To stop engaging in, discontinue (an activity or state, doing, †to do). Also: to stop wearing or using.

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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]

aswikec975

linOE

beleavec1175

forletc1175

i-swikec1175

restc1175

stutte?c1225

lina1300

blinc1314

to give overc1325

to do wayc1350

stintc1366

finisha1375

leavea1375

yleavec1380

to leave offa1382

refuse1389

ceasec1410

resigna1413

respite?a1439

relinquish1454

surcease1464

discontinue1474

unfill1486

supersede1499

desist1509

to have ado?1515

stop1525

to lay aside1530

stay1538

quata1614

to lay away1628

sist1635

quita1642

to throw up1645

to lay by1709

to come off1715

unbuckle1736

peter1753

to knock off1767

stash1794

estop1796

stow1806

cheese1811

to chuck itc1879

douse1887

nark1889

to stop off1891

stay1894

sling1902

can1906

to lay off1908

to pack in1934

to pack up1934

to turn in1938

to break down1941

to tie a can to (or on)1942

to jack in1948

to wrap it up1949

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > cease to use

leaveeOE

to lay downa1450

abuse1471

disuse1487

to leave off1570

sink1705

to put down1733

to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.)1826

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. Prol. l. 19 Leue he off [L.V. a1450 New Coll. Oxf. stynte; L. desistat], holy work to repreue wiþ venymyd toonge.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 2389 (MED) Thus was this wise king excused, And thei lefte of here evele speche.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. l. 207 (MED) ‘What crafte is best to lerne?’ ‘Lerne to loue,’ quod kynde, ‘& leue [c1400 Trin. Cambr. leef, a1450 Cambr. lief] of [C text c1400 Huntington HM 137 lef] alle othre.’

c1410 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (BL Add.) (1869) II. 97 Afterward þe Romayns lefte of þe regnynge in Britayne.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 316 Leffe of þi talke.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke v. 4 Whan he had left of talkinge he sayde [etc.].

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 56^v Leue of þis Langore.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 339/1 [Francis of Assisi] left of shoes, had but one coate, & that of course clothe.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 33 That the learning to write be not left of, vntill it be verie perfit.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 228 Bid him leaue off such affected flattering termes.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 41 His crosse fortune, which did neuer leaue off to persecute him.

1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? v. 249 It is long since your husband dyed, so as..you might before this time have left off that habit.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Nn3^v/1 Leave off this wrangling, cessez de vous quereler.

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews i. iii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 10 But I will leave off for the time to come to require such punishments.

1800 R. Warner Walk Western Counties Eng. iv. 101 When I left off play, I found I had got back my own half-guinea.

1832 A. Earle Narr. Resid. N.Z. 146 The white taboo'd day, when the packeahs (or white men) put on clean clothes, and leave off work.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 303 Those invalids who..will not leave off their habits of intemperance.

1891 Field 21 Nov. 774/3 We had reluctantly to leave off fishing.

1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes ii. 85 There was no sound, for the birds had left offsinging.

1976 W. W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers iii. 37 It would scarcely do to leave off crabbing or oystering on a weekday.

2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Apr. c7 The 10 players could assume them like veils, leaving off Frenchness to assume Germanism.

2. intransitive.

a. To stop doing something understood from the context; to bring something to an end, esp. before completion. Of a narrative: to come to an end, esp. before completion. Also: Stock Market (of shares, etc.) to end in a specified state or above, at, etc., a certain price on the closing of the market.

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. ix. 28 Prey ȝe þe lord þat þe þonders of god & þe haul leuen of [a1425 L.V. ceesse; L. desinant].

1415 T. Hoccleve Addr. to Sir John Oldcastle l. 152 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 13 Your wit Is al to feeble to despute... Stynte and leue of.

a1450 (a1400) Medit. Life & Passion of Christ (BL Add.) (1921) l. 438 (MED) More wolde I speke of þis matere, But I mot leue of riȝt here.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1237 If ye leve of now, thys wycked day of Desteny ys paste.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxvi[i]. 8 Leaue of from wrath, let go displeasure.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1204/2 Nowe death draweth nye, and I by your leaue must now leaue of to prepare for hym.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 174 Is nane so gude as leif of, and mak na mair stryfe.

1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxxi. 17 Leaue off first for maners sake, and be not vnsatiable.

1666 J. Beale Let. 10 Aug. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 200 Though it is good to learne first to spell well; yet we must not leave off there.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. Bij He knows also when to leave off; a Continence which is practis'd by few Writers.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 130. ¶4 Here the printed Story leaves off.

1749 Universal Mag. Mar. 100/2 I will subsume the thread of his Phœnician history, where we left off.

1816 G. Crabb Eng. Synonymes 174/2 A break is made in a page of printing by leaving off in the middle of a line.

1852 Spectator 30 Oct. 1036/2 Railway Shares leave off firm this afternoon, with an improvement in some of the leading Stocks.

1857 Railway Times 1 Aug. 1082/3 Several of the heavier stocks left off at about a quarter per cent. lower.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 198 Take up the enquiry where I left off.

1895 Bookman Oct. 25/1 It is merely a first volume, and we leave off with an appetite.

1905 Times 16 Feb. 13/1 Consols left off..½ above the ‘street’ price last night.

1928 A. E. Krows Playwriting for Profit xxxii. 340 In order to have one speech pick up where another leaves off, the controlling thought is placed toward the end of the speech.

1968 Investors Chron. & Stock Exchange Gaz. 26 Jan. 325/2 Sanity returned in the late dealings when the shares left off at a nominal £2 to £3.

1984 B. Bainbridge Watson's Apol. iv. 180 Sometimes he finished his sentences, and sometimes he left off in the middle of them.

2007 I. Stewart Why Beauty is Truth viii. 127 It took up the story of constructibility where Gauss had left off.

b. colloquial. In imperative. Stop it! leave me alone! Cf. to lay off 8 at lay v.¹ Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it!

to do waya1325

stay1601

go and eat coke1669

to leave off1785

whoa1838

drop it!1843

cut1859

turn it up1867

to come off ——1896

to chuck it1901

knock it off!1902

cut it out1903

nix1903

break it down1941

to shove it1941

leave it out!1969

1785 W. Crakelt Entick's New Spelling Dict. (rev. ed.) Hold, stop! cease! leave off! forbear!

1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 82 Leave off, sir, or I will cane you again.

1897 London Story Paper 2 Oct. 8/1 Leave off this minute, ye wild one, leave off or I'll fetch ye a clip over the head.

1915 J. Conrad Victory ii. viii. 160 ‘What's she like? It's the girl you—’ ‘Leave off!’ muttered Schomberg, utterly pitiful behind his stiff military front.

1959 A. Wesker Chicken Soup with Barley ii. i, in New Eng. Dramatists I. 206 Leave off! That's all he can say—leave off, leave me alone.

1974 B. Bainbridge Bottle Factory Outing iv. 60 Leave off... I'm not an invalid.

2003 C. Birch Turn again Home vi. 90 ‘Oh, leave off, Walter, do!’ Bennet turned her face to the wall and rocked, sighed, closed her eyes.

3. transitive (a) To stop having (a possession, a business or employment), to give up (now rare and merging with sense 1). †(b) To give up or forsake the society of (a person) (obsolete). †(c) To give up (a patient) as incurable (obsolete).

ΚΠ

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 2 Þe bokes of Ipocras & of many oþer were leften of [L. fuerunt omissi].

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.iii^v If it so be that a man..perceyueth that in wealth & auctoritie he doth hys own soule harme,..than would I in any wise aduise him to leaue of that thyng.

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. sig. E3^v If you be the man I take you,..leaue off your armes and fall to amours.

a1661 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (1662) 27 Left off by a very honest and able Doctor.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 154 To oblige him to leave off Pupils he made him his Curate.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 264. ⁋2 He left off all his old Acquaintance to a Man.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 340 He would send her sufficient to enable her to leave off her Shop.

1776 D. Garrick Let. 14 May (1963) III. 1098 As I..have not yet left offtrade, I cannot, till I make my transfer, be absent from the Shop one Night.

1827 Oriental Herald July 79 The Right Honourable the Lady Louisa Berkeley being left off by other physicians.

1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 6 Apr. 73/3 You have, perhaps, left off acquaintance with a particular Peghler, as contractor for building a dyke near your residence in the country.

1994 G. Pontiero tr. J. Saramago Man. Painting & Calligraphy 77 He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York.

4. transitive. To omit or remove, esp. from an end or the outside of something. Also: not to wear or use.

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c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 3 The prayers may be..left off by occasions: as when the Minister is to preach.

1647 J. Berkenhead Pref. Verses in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Wks. sig. d3^v You Two thought fit To weare just Robes, and leave off Trunk-hose-Wit.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4083/4 Tho. Brown..wears a Wig, but his Hair almost long enough to leave it off.

1745 M. Folkes Table Eng. Silver Coins 16 The old device of the pellets..was now left off, as well as the inner circle with the name of the place of mintage on the same side.

1792 W. Bligh Voy. to South Sea 239 Nelson..was taken ill, in consequence of a cold caused by imprudently leaving off warm clothing.

1828 H. H. Wilson in Asiatic Researches 16 135 Nagas..carry their secession from ordinary manners so far as to leave off every kind of covering.

1836 Trans. 5th Ann. Meeting Western Lit. Inst. 186 Thirty-eight..are used the same as in Latin, with the exception of fourteen, which have a letter or two left off at the end.

1858 A. J. Graham Hand-bk. Standard or Amer. Phonography 51 Pronounce the word eat distinctly several times; and finally leave off the sound indicated by t.

1924 Boys' Life Nov. 26/4 If you do want a plain leather case this ancient Indian quiver and bowcase may be used as a model with all the ornaments left off.

1966 J. Derrick Teaching Eng. to Immigrants vi. 210 Meaning is conveyed..with a reduced form of grammar—word-endings are left off, structural words omitted, etc.

2014 S. A. McKeever Becoming Joey Fizz 23 Clay and I were technically on leave, so we had a choice to wear or leave off our uniforms.

5. transitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. To set (a person or thing) down from a vehicle, etc.; to drop off (see drop v. Additions).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > set down

to set down1669

to put down1795

to leave off1848

land1853

to put off1867

drop1961

1848 J. J. Oswandel Jrnl. 3 July in Notes Mexican War (1885) 592 As usual, we stopped at several towns to leave off and take on passengers.

1896 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 3 Apr. 9/3 ‘Please leave me off at Tutherford,’ I said.

1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 199 They left me off a quarter-mile up and drove to the door.

1986 R. Ford Sportswriter viii. 202 You can see the UPS truck on our street every day still, leaving off hammocks and smokers and God knows what all.

2011 D. Parr Hidden Affections xxxv. 308 If you leave me off any closer, someone at the house might see the coach.

单词	leave off
释义	> as lemmas to leave off to leave off 1. transitive. To stop engaging in, discontinue (an activity or state, doing, †to do). Also: to stop wearing or using. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] aswikec975 linOE beleavec1175 forletc1175 i-swikec1175 restc1175 stutte?c1225 lina1300 blinc1314 to give overc1325 to do wayc1350 stintc1366 finisha1375 leavea1375 yleavec1380 to leave offa1382 refuse1389 ceasec1410 resigna1413 respite?a1439 relinquish1454 surcease1464 discontinue1474 unfill1486 supersede1499 desist1509 to have ado?1515 stop1525 to lay aside1530 stay1538 quata1614 to lay away1628 sist1635 quita1642 to throw up1645 to lay by1709 to come off1715 unbuckle1736 peter1753 to knock off1767 stash1794 estop1796 stow1806 cheese1811 to chuck itc1879 douse1887 nark1889 to stop off1891 stay1894 sling1902 can1906 to lay off1908 to pack in1934 to pack up1934 to turn in1938 to break down1941 to tie a can to (or on)1942 to jack in1948 to wrap it up1949 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > cease to use leaveeOE to lay downa1450 abuse1471 disuse1487 to leave off1570 sink1705 to put down1733 to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.)1826 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. Prol. l. 19 Leue he off [L.V. a1450 New Coll. Oxf. stynte; L. desistat], holy work to repreue wiþ venymyd toonge. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 2389 (MED) Thus was this wise king excused, And thei lefte of here evele speche. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. l. 207 (MED) ‘What crafte is best to lerne?’ ‘Lerne to loue,’ quod kynde, ‘& leue [c1400 Trin. Cambr. leef, a1450 Cambr. lief] of [C text c1400 Huntington HM 137 lef] alle othre.’ c1410 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (BL Add.) (1869) II. 97 Afterward þe Romayns lefte of þe regnynge in Britayne. a1450 York Plays (1885) 316 Leffe of þi talke. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke v. 4 Whan he had left of talkinge he sayde [etc.]. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 56^v Leue of þis Langore. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 339/1 [Francis of Assisi] left of shoes, had but one coate, & that of course clothe. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 33 That the learning to write be not left of, vntill it be verie perfit. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 228 Bid him leaue off such affected flattering termes. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 41 His crosse fortune, which did neuer leaue off to persecute him. 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? v. 249 It is long since your husband dyed, so as..you might before this time have left off that habit. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Nn3^v/1 Leave off this wrangling, cessez de vous quereler. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews i. iii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 10 But I will leave off for the time to come to require such punishments. 1800 R. Warner Walk Western Counties Eng. iv. 101 When I left off play, I found I had got back my own half-guinea. 1832 A. Earle Narr. Resid. N.Z. 146 The white taboo'd day, when the packeahs (or white men) put on clean clothes, and leave off work. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 303 Those invalids who..will not leave off their habits of intemperance. 1891 Field 21 Nov. 774/3 We had reluctantly to leave off fishing. 1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes ii. 85 There was no sound, for the birds had left offsinging. 1976 W. W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers iii. 37 It would scarcely do to leave off crabbing or oystering on a weekday. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Apr. c7 The 10 players could assume them like veils, leaving off Frenchness to assume Germanism. 2. intransitive. a. To stop doing something understood from the context; to bring something to an end, esp. before completion. Of a narrative: to come to an end, esp. before completion. Also: Stock Market (of shares, etc.) to end in a specified state or above, at, etc., a certain price on the closing of the market. ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. ix. 28 Prey ȝe þe lord þat þe þonders of god & þe haul leuen of [a1425 L.V. ceesse; L. desinant]. 1415 T. Hoccleve Addr. to Sir John Oldcastle l. 152 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 13 Your wit Is al to feeble to despute... Stynte and leue of. a1450 (a1400) Medit. Life & Passion of Christ (BL Add.) (1921) l. 438 (MED) More wolde I speke of þis matere, But I mot leue of riȝt here. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1237 If ye leve of now, thys wycked day of Desteny ys paste. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxvi[i]. 8 Leaue of from wrath, let go displeasure. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1204/2 Nowe death draweth nye, and I by your leaue must now leaue of to prepare for hym. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 174 Is nane so gude as leif of, and mak na mair stryfe. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxxi. 17 Leaue off first for maners sake, and be not vnsatiable. View more context for this quotation 1666 J. Beale Let. 10 Aug. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 200 Though it is good to learne first to spell well; yet we must not leave off there. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. Bij He knows also when to leave off; a Continence which is practis'd by few Writers. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 130. ¶4 Here the printed Story leaves off. 1749 Universal Mag. Mar. 100/2 I will subsume the thread of his Phœnician history, where we left off. 1816 G. Crabb Eng. Synonymes 174/2 A break is made in a page of printing by leaving off in the middle of a line. 1852 Spectator 30 Oct. 1036/2 Railway Shares leave off firm this afternoon, with an improvement in some of the leading Stocks. 1857 Railway Times 1 Aug. 1082/3 Several of the heavier stocks left off at about a quarter per cent. lower. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 198 Take up the enquiry where I left off. 1895 Bookman Oct. 25/1 It is merely a first volume, and we leave off with an appetite. 1905 Times 16 Feb. 13/1 Consols left off..½ above the ‘street’ price last night. 1928 A. E. Krows Playwriting for Profit xxxii. 340 In order to have one speech pick up where another leaves off, the controlling thought is placed toward the end of the speech. 1968 Investors Chron. & Stock Exchange Gaz. 26 Jan. 325/2 Sanity returned in the late dealings when the shares left off at a nominal £2 to £3. 1984 B. Bainbridge Watson's Apol. iv. 180 Sometimes he finished his sentences, and sometimes he left off in the middle of them. 2007 I. Stewart Why Beauty is Truth viii. 127 It took up the story of constructibility where Gauss had left off. b. colloquial. In imperative. Stop it! leave me alone! Cf. to lay off 8 at lay v.¹ Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it! to do waya1325 stay1601 go and eat coke1669 to leave off1785 whoa1838 drop it!1843 cut1859 turn it up1867 to come off ——1896 to chuck it1901 knock it off!1902 cut it out1903 nix1903 break it down1941 to shove it1941 leave it out!1969 1785 W. Crakelt Entick's New Spelling Dict. (rev. ed.) Hold, stop! cease! leave off! forbear! 1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 82 Leave off, sir, or I will cane you again. 1897 London Story Paper 2 Oct. 8/1 Leave off this minute, ye wild one, leave off or I'll fetch ye a clip over the head. 1915 J. Conrad Victory ii. viii. 160 ‘What's she like? It's the girl you—’ ‘Leave off!’ muttered Schomberg, utterly pitiful behind his stiff military front. 1959 A. Wesker Chicken Soup with Barley ii. i, in New Eng. Dramatists I. 206 Leave off! That's all he can say—leave off, leave me alone. 1974 B. Bainbridge Bottle Factory Outing iv. 60 Leave off... I'm not an invalid. 2003 C. Birch Turn again Home vi. 90 ‘Oh, leave off, Walter, do!’ Bennet turned her face to the wall and rocked, sighed, closed her eyes. 3. transitive (a) To stop having (a possession, a business or employment), to give up (now rare and merging with sense 1). †(b) To give up or forsake the society of (a person) (obsolete). †(c) To give up (a patient) as incurable (obsolete). ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 2 Þe bokes of Ipocras & of many oþer were leften of [L. fuerunt omissi]. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.iii^v If it so be that a man..perceyueth that in wealth & auctoritie he doth hys own soule harme,..than would I in any wise aduise him to leaue of that thyng. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. sig. E3^v If you be the man I take you,..leaue off your armes and fall to amours. a1661 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (1662) 27 Left off by a very honest and able Doctor. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 154 To oblige him to leave off Pupils he made him his Curate. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 264. ⁋2 He left off all his old Acquaintance to a Man. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 340 He would send her sufficient to enable her to leave off her Shop. 1776 D. Garrick Let. 14 May (1963) III. 1098 As I..have not yet left offtrade, I cannot, till I make my transfer, be absent from the Shop one Night. 1827 Oriental Herald July 79 The Right Honourable the Lady Louisa Berkeley being left off by other physicians. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 6 Apr. 73/3 You have, perhaps, left off acquaintance with a particular Peghler, as contractor for building a dyke near your residence in the country. 1994 G. Pontiero tr. J. Saramago Man. Painting & Calligraphy 77 He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York. 4. transitive. To omit or remove, esp. from an end or the outside of something. Also: not to wear or use. ΚΠ c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 3 The prayers may be..left off by occasions: as when the Minister is to preach. 1647 J. Berkenhead Pref. Verses in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Wks. sig. d3^v You Two thought fit To weare just Robes, and leave off Trunk-hose-Wit. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4083/4 Tho. Brown..wears a Wig, but his Hair almost long enough to leave it off. 1745 M. Folkes Table Eng. Silver Coins 16 The old device of the pellets..was now left off, as well as the inner circle with the name of the place of mintage on the same side. 1792 W. Bligh Voy. to South Sea 239 Nelson..was taken ill, in consequence of a cold caused by imprudently leaving off warm clothing. 1828 H. H. Wilson in Asiatic Researches 16 135 Nagas..carry their secession from ordinary manners so far as to leave off every kind of covering. 1836 Trans. 5th Ann. Meeting Western Lit. Inst. 186 Thirty-eight..are used the same as in Latin, with the exception of fourteen, which have a letter or two left off at the end. 1858 A. J. Graham Hand-bk. Standard or Amer. Phonography 51 Pronounce the word eat distinctly several times; and finally leave off the sound indicated by t. 1924 Boys' Life Nov. 26/4 If you do want a plain leather case this ancient Indian quiver and bowcase may be used as a model with all the ornaments left off. 1966 J. Derrick Teaching Eng. to Immigrants vi. 210 Meaning is conveyed..with a reduced form of grammar—word-endings are left off, structural words omitted, etc. 2014 S. A. McKeever Becoming Joey Fizz 23 Clay and I were technically on leave, so we had a choice to wear or leave off our uniforms. 5. transitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. To set (a person or thing) down from a vehicle, etc.; to drop off (see drop v. Additions). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > set down to set down1669 to put down1795 to leave off1848 land1853 to put off1867 drop1961 1848 J. J. Oswandel Jrnl. 3 July in Notes Mexican War (1885) 592 As usual, we stopped at several towns to leave off and take on passengers. 1896 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 3 Apr. 9/3 ‘Please leave me off at Tutherford,’ I said. 1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 199 They left me off a quarter-mile up and drove to the door. 1986 R. Ford Sportswriter viii. 202 You can see the UPS truck on our street every day still, leaving off hammocks and smokers and God knows what all. 2011 D. Parr Hidden Affections xxxv. 308 If you leave me off any closer, someone at the house might see the coach. extracted from leavev.¹ leave off a. So as to interrupt continuity or cause discontinuance, as in to break off, cut off, declare off, leave off, switch off, turn off, etc. ΚΠ α. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 377 Leve of [L Desiste], Alwyn, wiþ þy good wille. a1425 (?a1400) Bk. Priue Counseling in P. Hodgson Cloud of Unknowing (1944) 171 (MED) It is speedful sumtyme to leue of þi corious worching in þi wittes. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 174 Is nane sa gude as leif of, and mak na mair stryfe. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. v. sig. Dd4 His deuotion..Breaking of. View more context for this quotation β. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 31^v It will soone wax barraine, and leave off fruit bearing.1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 43 Upon Saturday..they break off worke sooner by an houre.1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 350 She was the occasion of my Ruin, for she had persuaded me to go on, when I would have left off.1818 Sporting Mag. 3 91 The match went off, and all bets were declared void.1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 69 The Duke has declared off, and the wounded lover does not seem to be anxious to make his proposals of marriage.1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xx. 309 He turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.1892 Bookman Oct. 27/2 Zola began by being an idealist. He has not left off being one.1934 F. S. Fitzgerald Tender is Night i. xxiii. 115 Claude, who was checking stock, broke off his work..to make Abe a pick-me-up.1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee vi. 132 Their grand strategy soon became apparent—..cut off supplies for Carrington's troops, isolate them, and attack.1993 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. a12/1 The authorities cut off water and electricity to the cellblock. extracted from offadv.prep.n.adj. < as lemmas
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