leave off

• Verbe à particule utilisé pour indiquer l'arrêt ou la cessation d'une activité, ou l'omission de quelque chose d'une liste ou d'une séquence.

A phrasal verb used to indicate stopping or ceasing an activity, or omitting something from a list or sequence.

indénombrable · verbe irrégulier · intransitif · phrasal, inséparable

1. Stop doing somethinginformal

   To cease or discontinue an activity or action.

   cesser de faire quelque chose

   • Please leave off making that noise.
   • He left off working on the project for a break.
   • The rain left off just as we arrived home.

   Synonymesabstainbreak offceasedesistdiscontinueendgive uphaltpausequitrefrainstop

   Antonymesbegincommencecontinuekeeppersistresumestart

2. Omit or excludeinformal

   To not include something or someone.

   Omette ou exclure

   • They left off my name from the list.
   • The recipe left off the sugar by mistake.
   • She left off the final chapter of the book.

   Synonymesdisregarddropexcludeleave outomitskip

   Antonymesaddincludeinsert

Verbe de baseleave