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leaue

leaue is the obsolete typography of leave.

Meaning of leave

Verb

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

  1. (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.
    • I left my car at home and took a bus to work.
  2. (copulative, intransitive, transitive) To cause, to result in.
    • The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.
  3. (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
    • Leave your hat in the hall.
  4. (transitive) To let be or do without interference.
    • I left him to his reflections.
  5. (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
    • His bow and arrow never leaves him.
  6. (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
    • If we were to leave, the economic impact on a number of European countries would be severe.2018, The Independent, "Brexit: Theresa May 'not bluffing' in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says"

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Forms of leaue

third-person singular presentleaues
present participleleauing
past participleleft
pastleft
past participleleaft
pastleaft

Questions about leaue

What is leaue the obsolete typography of?
Leaue is the obsolete typography of leave.

Words near leaue in the dictionary

  1. Leaths
  2. Leaton
  3. leats
  4. leatwright
  5. leatwrights
  6. leaue
  7. leavability
  8. leavable
  9. leave
  10. leave a lot to be desired
  11. leave a mark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leaue (page history and authors); leave (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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