Definitions for leaving

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leaving leav·ing

Spelling: [lee-ving]

IPA: /ˈli vɪŋ/

Leaving is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in leaving (aegilnv).

Definitions for leaving

noun

1. something that is left; residue.
2. leavings, leftovers or remains; refuse.

Verb phrases

1. leave alone. alone (def 7).
2. leave off, to desist from; cease; stop; abandon. to stop using or wearing: to omit:
3. leave out, to omit; exclude:

verb (used with object)

1. to go out of or away from, as a place:
2. to depart from permanently; quit:
3. to let remain or have remaining behind after going, disappearing, ceasing, etc.:
4. to allow to remain in the same place, condition, etc.:
5. to let stay or be as specified:
6. to let (a person or animal) remain in a position to do something without interference:
7. to let (a thing) remain for action or decision:
8. to give in charge; deposit; entrust:
9. to stop; cease; give up:
10. to disregard; neglect:
11. to give for use after one's death or departure:
12. to have remaining after death:
13. to have as a remainder after subtraction:
14. Nonstandard. let1 (defs 1, 2, 6).

verb (used without object)

1. to go away, depart, or set out:
2. to put forth leaves; leaf.

Origin of leaving

First recorded in 1300-50, leaving is from the Middle English word leving. See leave¹, -ing¹

Examples for leaving

On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.

The result is that drone operators are leaving the Air Force in droves.

Because of this, the peacekeeping forces have been blocking Muslims from leaving on envoys out of the country.

This is the first good spring since leaving the settled districts.

I wish we might have talked more—I'm sure—when are you leaving?

leaving the two to pursue their voyage home, we return to Captain Haley.

Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?

Mr. Bines is my husband, Mtterchen, and we're leaving for the West in the morning.

The natives had made off when they saw us, leaving their game cooking.

It drains your body of nutrients and vitamins, attacking the central nervous system and leaving you in a dehydrated, hazy state.