4. cease, desist, give up, intermit, abandon, drop; Inf. shut up shop, Inf. call it a day, call it quits; surrender, resign, abdicate, Chiefly Scot. demit, renounce, throw up; let go, release.
5. bequeath, bequest, endow, endow with, leave behind, hand down; dower, assign dower; devise, will, will to, give by will, bless with; commit, consign, refer.
6. leave out in the cold snub, slight, shun, reject, rebuff, Inf. high-hat; neglect, overlook, ignore, gloss over; let slip, let slide, forget; put aside, Inf. give the go-by, refuse to acknowledge, turn from, turn away from, turn one's back on, disregard; dodge, pass by, by-pass, pass up.
7. leave in the lurch desert, abandon, quit, reject, Inf. cop out on, jilt, forsake, run away from; leave stranded, leave high and dry.
8. leave off stop, desist, cease, halt, discontinue; stay, refrain, restrain, pause, rest; hang fire, hold off, hold back.
9. leave out omit, eliminate, exclude, bar, count out; reject, repudiate, throw out, cut, cut out, cast aside, set aside; pass over, slide over, gloss over, slough over.
leave2, n. 1. permission, liberty, allowance, sanction, license, warrant, authorization; exemption, concession, special favor, Rom. Cath. Ch. dispensation, sufferance, vouchsafement; tolerance, toleration, indulgence, indulgency, grace.
2. furlough, rest and recuperation, R & R; respite, rest, recess, break, time off; sabbatical, leave of absence; vacation, Brit, holiday; excursion, trip.
3. departure, leaving, going, exit, egress; leave-taking, parting, farewell, adieu, valediction, conge; retirement, retreat, removal, withdrawal, evacuation.
leaven, n. 1. leavening, ferment, barm, pepsin, soda; baking soda, baking powder, yeast, zyme, enzyme, zymogen; maltase, diastase, invertase, zymase. 2. catalyst, catalytic agent, agent, factor, element, determinant; transformer, modifier, alterer, alterative, alterant; modificator, adapter, changer, converter.
-v. 3. raise, ferment, lighten, work, expand; effervesce, pepsinate.
4. permeate, infuse, pervade, imbue; diffuse, suffuse, transfuse, penetrate, instill; enliven, lift, elevate, inspirit, stimulate, enhearten, quicken, inspire.
5. infect, tinge, season, temper, soften, affect;
lighten, mitigate, palliate, assuage, reduce, abate; moderate, alter, adjust, transform, make; qualify, restrict, modify, limit; make into, turn into, reduce to, render.
leave-taking, n. 1. leave, parting, farewell, good-by, adieu, valediction, conge; departure, leaving, going, exit, egress; embarkation, sailing, takeoff, outset, start.
2. abandonment, retreat, withdrawal, removal, evacuation, decampment, decamping,
leaving, Usu.
leavings n. 1. waste, wastage, remains, refuse, spoils; offscourings, scourings,
sweepings, scum; sawdust, shavings, parings, filings, scrapings, raspings; chaff, stubbles; slag, sprue, dross, sordes; (all of skin) shreddings, sloughings, scurf, furfur, dandruff.
2. residue, residuum, remainder, rest, balance; remnants, leftover, {both usu. of food) leftovers, orts; oddments, rummage, odds and ends, truck, junk, Inf. crap; rejectamenta.
3. ruins, rubble, detritus, debris, litter; cinders, ashes, embers, coals, soot, carbon, smut, Chem. precipitate; lava, Geol. clinker.
4. rubbish, trash, garbage, offal, refuse, swill, slop, riffraff, Brit. Dial, raff; carrion.
5. deposit, alluvium, alluvion, Geol. diluvium or diluvion; moraine, silt, loess, sinter; dregs, draff, sediment, settlings, lees, heeltap, grounds.