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take one's leave

take one's leave verb: to depart.

Verb

take one's leave (third-person singular simple present takes one's leave, present participle taking one's leave, simple past took one's leave, past participle taken one's leave)

  1. (idiomatic) To depart.
    • And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 18:18
    Synonyms:
    take leave
  2. say goodbye

take one's leave meaning in Vietnamese

take one's leave in Vietnamese

say goodbye
cáo từ

Synonyms of take one's leave

Forms of take one's leave

third-person singular presenttakes one's leave
present participletaking one's leave
pasttook one's leave
past participletaken one's leave

Questions about take one's leave

What does take one's leave mean?
Take one's leave means to depart.
What is take one's leave in Vietnamese?
Take one's leave in Vietnamese is cáo từ. See Take one's leave meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is take one's leave?
Take one's leave is a verb.
What is the past tense of take one's leave?
The past tense of take one's leave is took one's leave.

Words near take one's leave in the dictionary

  1. take one's football and go home
  2. take one's half out of the middle
  3. take one's hat off to
  4. take one's hook
  5. take one's kit off
  6. take one's leave
  7. take one's life
  8. take one's life in one's hands
  9. take one's lumps
  10. take one's medicine
  11. take one's own hide to market

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