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lets be

lets be is the third-person singular simple present indicative of let be.

Meaning of let be

Verb

let be (third-person singular simple present lets be, present participle letting be, simple past and past participle let be)

  1. (transitive) To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be).
    • Will you never let me be?
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive).
    • Let be therefore my vengeaunce to disswade [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. Used to assign a value to a symbol.
    • Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J.

Questions about lets be

What is lets be the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lets be is the third-person singular simple present indicative of let be.

Words near lets be in the dictionary

  1. Letowskis
  2. letrozole
  3. letrozoles
  4. lets
  5. lets alone
  6. lets be
  7. lets blood
  8. lets bygones be bygones
  9. lets crazy stick its dick in you
  10. lets down
  11. lets drive

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