leave off

English

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Verb

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

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To omit.
2. (informal) To desist; to cease.

   Leave off hitting him!

3. (intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]

     Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.

Synonyms

• (omit): exclude, miss off; see also Thesaurus:omit
• (desist): break off, have done with; see also Thesaurus:desist
• (stop with a view to resuming): pause, take a break

Translations

to desist

• Esperanto: ĉesi (eo)
• Maori: kātirawhe, waiho atu
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