LEAVES OFF Synonyms: 106 Similar and Opposite Words

leaves off

verb

present tense third-person singular of leave off

as in ends

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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as in stops

to come to an end the snow should leave off around midnight

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Recent Examples of leaves off After curing, clip the garlic leaves off hardneck garlic varieties and store the bulbs in mesh bags, or twist softneck garlic leaves into braids for hanging. —

Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2026 By the end of The Charmer, Lewis leaves off with a fitting end, on healing. —

Tina Eves, SPIN, 4 May 2026 Pull tarragon leaves off the stem and finely chop the leaves. —

Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026 The rear is the most interesting angle, with a bumper design that picks up where the front leaves off and no attempt at a fake diffuser. —

Joel Feder, The Drive, 4 Mar. 2026 Pruning Practices All tomato plants benefit from pruning to keep the leaves off the ground, eliminate sucker shoots to increase energy for fruit production, and to open the plant for good air circulation. —

Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026 This is the atheism of Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger and their existentialist descendants, which begins in precisely the place where scientific materialism leaves off, with the will of the subjective, conscious agent. —

Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026 This twist on a French manicure leaves off only the lunula of the nail to the imagination. —

Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026 Rain is coming, penciled in for an hour or two from now, and a harsh British wind is flinging leaves off branches and cloaking the countryside with something that smells dungy and damp. —

Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025

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Chakraborty’s Obie-winning turn anchors the show with maternal rigor and restraint, as mother and son test how art might brace a fragile heart; the brief run ends Saturday.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
These individuals excel at visibility, strategy decks and company-wide communications, but their actual influence ends just at the cusp of acting on it.

— Dr. Adil Dalal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026