1
as in to stop
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
we usually leave off working as soon as the bell rings
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2
as in to end
to come to an end
the snow should leave off around midnight
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Recent Examples of leave off
Shot back-to-back with 28 Years Later, the upcoming sequel is set to seemingly pick up right where its predecessor left off, with Spike (Alfie Williams) being rescued from a group of the infected by Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell) and his enigmatic cult.
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Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
The gala-going crowd picked up right where New York Fashion Week left off on Sunday, with the annual opening night gala for the Metropolitan Opera.
—Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
She was left off the team's active roster for the playoffs.
—Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
The Stanley Cup is the last thing left off the resume.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
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Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
The gala-going crowd picked up right where New York Fashion Week left off on Sunday, with the annual opening night gala for the Metropolitan Opera.
—Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
She was left off the team's active roster for the playoffs.
—Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
The Stanley Cup is the last thing left off the resume.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leave off
Verb
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The traffic itself generally keeps moving rather than fully stopping.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Fighting on the island had stopped, so the soldiers in the picture were not under fire, and the action of raising the flag (there is a movie of it) took all of a few seconds.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But that’s not where the partnership ends.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
25 Sep. 2025
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Bryant ended his Cowboys career with the most receiving touchdowns for any receiver in team history (73).—
Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Trouble in Mind Records, the Chicago label that specialized in punk and garage-rock for more than a decade, has ceased operations.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
26 Sep. 2025
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All her fraudulent welfare handouts ceased in January 2025.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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The Little Rock Board of Directors must confirm Buchanan's reappointment to the panel, which would be for a five-year term that expires in September 2030.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Sep. 2025
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The arbitration is to decide on the police union's contract from 2023 through 2025 — which expires in just over three months.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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The sanctions, which will go into effect unless there’s a last-minute deal Friday, will include freezing Iranian assets abroad, halting arms deals with Tehran and penalizing any development of Iran’s ballistic missile program.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The new project was in pre-production earlier this month before everything was halted when Cavill was injured during training.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
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Not much has gone to plan for the Twins this season, but Ryan’s season — which officially concluded on Friday night — was one of the things that has.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
27 Sep. 2025
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Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory jointly designed and produced the system’s five subsystems, said calibration and early on-orbit testing concluded successfully in June.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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But after two minor league seasons, Acosta quit baseball altogether and took a year off working in Canada.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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Tom Cillo quit his high-school team in the 1980s after getting involved in drugs, then worked 33 years for a city streets and parks department before deciding to chase a long-dormant dream.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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And when his claims about a lobbyist infiltrating the summit bear out, Alex winds up breaking a story that makes news that evening.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
24 Sep. 2025
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Kicking off its festival run at San Sebastian, the doc is primarily of interest to dance buffs and devotees of both performers, but may wind up courting a subset of the audience for such crossover theater-cinema events as the National Theater’s popular NT Live releases.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Leave off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leave%20off. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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