behind
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1.0
- adverb
- /bɪˈhaɪnd/
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- Building administrators are held accountable to ensure that no students are left behind by the reporting of building scores.
- left behind
- stay behind
- remain behind
Those are the Nazis who you leave behind to spy and report, right?
- Those are the Nazis who you leave behind to spy and report, right?
Examples
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At midafternoon, leaving the Gulf behind, they started back along the barren way.
Fiction book (1990) -
And a more austere, less prosperous settlement would have left little behind to suggest its existence.
Academic text (2011) -
I forget those things which are behind and I press.
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We should have left that behind in England.
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Of course, we should pay closer attention to artists who have remained behind in Africa.
Academic text (2008) -
No, my wife had to stay behind in Phoenix to complete the sale of our home.
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But then, many of the Americans who were left behind also lost their nerve over the same thing.
Fiction book (1990) -
And they leave footprints behind, so we know they have been there.
Academic text (2008) -
Faul turned to the innkeeper, who had remained behind, and shook her head.
Fiction book (1991) -
After everyone else had left, she stayed behind to clean up the mess.
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Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
3
9.6
In a difficult situation with little chance to make things better
- Literature
2
8.2
A person who secretly controls a leader from behind the scenes
To succeed and then stop others from getting the same chances
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Etymology
The word behind comes from old parts be- meaning 'by' and hind meaning 'back', the same root as hinder. So if something is left behind, it is 'by the back' of the group and still remaining after others.