to leave on

Examples

• All

• Anything you leave on this coffee table just vanishes overnight.

  H3 Podcast

• It's just a fan that's been left on.

  Vantage Point (2008)

• Why are all these lights left on?

  Suite Française (2015)

• One narrow window had a light on, probably a bathroom light left on all night.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The perimeter sensors are still left on.

  Mercenary for Justice (2006)

• The truck and the light that Schmidt had left on glowed off to the right.

  Fiction book (1991)

• "The Light Searcher," built by Jonathan Ioviero, electronically searches for lights left on in a house.

  Academic text (2001)

• Please remember to leave on the lights when you go out so the house looks lived in.

• You should leave on your jacket if it's still chilly outside.

• Don't forget to leave on the coffee maker so it's ready for the morning.

Antonyms

R

to remove

∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

S

to switch off

37 1.1

To stop a machine or light by using a control such as a button

How Active

running

1.0

to keep on

306 1.4

to leave on

25 2.3

to leave off

• Informal

104 4.1

to turn off

631 1.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology