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took leave

took leave is the simple past of take leave.

Meaning of take leave

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, leave.
    • Romney had already taken leave from Bain Capital by the time the American Pad & Paper layoffs took place.2011 March, W James Antle III, “Front-runner Failure”, in American Spectator, volume 44, number 2, page 12
  2. (often, with-of) To depart.
    • So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343

Questions about took leave

What is took leave the simple past of?
Took leave is the simple past of take leave.

Words near took leave in the dictionary

  1. took its rise
  2. took its toll
  3. took kindly
  4. took L's
  5. took law into one's own hands
  6. took leave
  7. took leave of one's senses
  8. took liberties
  9. took lightly
  10. took long
  11. took lying down

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