Word Meanings - LEAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEAVE)

• Abandon
• Leave
• forsake
• desert
• renounce
• cease
• relinquish
• discontinue
• castoff
• resign
• retire
• quit
• forego
• forswear
• depart from
• vacate
• surrender
• abjure
• repudiate
• Entail
• Bequeath
• leave
• devolve
• demise
• involve
• necessitate
• induce
• Liberty
• Freedom
• independence
• permission
• privilege
• license
• franchise
• immunity
• insult
• impropriety
• volition
• voluntariness
• exemption
• Permission
• dispensation
• allowance
• liberty
• consent
• sufferance
• compliance
• endurance
• Quit
• abandon
• discharge
• release
• give up

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LEAVE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Respect
• salute
• honor
• praise
• flatter
• compliment
• gratify
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to LEAVE)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• VOLUNTARINESS
  The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• BEQUEATH
  1. To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak. 2. To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill. 3. To
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• VACATE
  Etym: 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.