to leave behind
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2.6
- phrasal verb
- /liːv bɪˈhaɪnd/
:
abandonar
- What's gonna happen to him if we leave him behind?
- get left behind
- forgotten and left behind
- leave behind children
She could not remember which kid she left behind in the mall.
- She could not remember which kid she left behind in the mall.
- You know, you can't leave anything behind if you don't move forward.
- But there are a whole generation of students I've left behind who don't have this.
- So I feel like crying because I'm leaving people behind who need a life.
- I'm making sure that I leave that ball behind and reset.
- He takes all the cash but leaves behind all his cell phones.
- Thus, we will leave the city behind, heading for the desert.
- That's somebody trying to trigger your fear of being left behind, right?
- Just like on the wealth transfer path, you don't want to be left behind on AI.
- But for the people who couldn't, we had to leave them behind and keep climbing.
Examples
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When the storm hit, many families were forced to leave behind their homes.
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We will not leave you behind and we are all in this together.
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Yeah, but did he leave anybody behind?
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Are you leaving everything behind?
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Thus, we will leave the city behind, heading for the desert.
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So I feel like crying because I'm leaving people behind who need a life.
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But working class communities like this are suffering, left behind to freeze this winter.
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He can, you know, leave behind this day job, you could say.
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She could not remember which kid she left behind in the mall.
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You can get left behind if you're not adaptable.
Synonyms
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1.0
To not take something or someone with you when you go
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3.1
Leave someone or something behind permanently and without care
632
3.5
Leave a person, place, or situation without taking part anymore
234
4.4
To abandon a person, plan, or thing suddenly
38
6.9
To leave someone who needs your help
Antonyms
How Abandoning
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to be survived by' follows directly from combining 'leave' (to go away or to cause something to remain) with 'behind' (remaining after departure): together they mean to cause something to remain after one leaves. This verb+particle composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the death-related sense as a specific application of 'leaving something remaining.'
Etymology
The verb leave behind comes from the image of someone walking away and leaving a bag or a friend behind while they go on; you leave them there and do not take them. So it means 'to abandon' or 'to go away without taking someone or something'.