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View synonyms for leave behind

leave behind

verb

  1. adverb to forget or neglect to bring or take
  2. to cause to remain as a result or sign of something

    the storm left a trail of damage behind

  3. to pass

    once the wind came up, we soon left the land behind us



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There are plenty of tragic and inspiring choices, but the most obvious legacy Castro will leave behind is the broken family.

If you knew you had a week left, what's more important—award statuettes or the films you leave behind?

“The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City,” Mario Batali once said.

All that You Can't Leave Behind's classic sound closed the door on Pop's excessive experimentalism.

Whenever she moved, she would leave behind a trail of small vapor clouds that resemble smoke only to the attention-challenged.

Let them, the British Government at Quebec, proceed against him; he would have only one trouble to meet, one to leave behind.

They leave behind them the thoughts which breed such dreams to trouble the sleep of those who are not of their kind.

But, although these two compositions leave behind them a pleasurable impression, they can lay only a small claim to originality.

The "first friend" is a man's wealth, which he must leave behind him when he dies.

What I have brought is something that I could not bear to leave behind.

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