leave out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, out.
Example Sentences
- "The journalist decided to leave out certain details from her story."
- "The journalist decided to leave the sleaze out of her story."
- "But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others."
- "Capello mystifyingly left Ashley Young out despite a match-winning display in the Euro 2012 qualifier win in Wales in March and he only underlined the folly of the decision by emerging as substitute at half-time and striking a fine equaliser six minutes after coming on."
- "Hey! Leave out the complaining now, will you?"
- "After breakfast, there were still some ingredients left out that needed to be put away."