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Antonyms for leave behind
| Grammar : Verb |
- accept
- achieve
- adopt
- aid
- allow
- appear
- approve
- assert
- be inferior
- be willing
- care
- cherish
- come
- confront
- continue
- defend
- deny
- disallow
- encounter
- face
- fail
- fall behind
- favor
- get
- give up
- go
- help
- hold
- hold on to
- keep
- live
- lose
- maintain
- meet
- miss
- present
- pursue
- receive
- refuse
- reject
- retain
- stay
- succeed
- support
- surrender
- take
- take on
- uphold
- use
- veto
- win
- withhold
Definition of leave behind
- As in leave : verb forget, neglect
- As in leave : verb give, especially after death
- As in lose : verb escape, avoid
- As in outdistance : verb outrun
- As in outdo : verb better, overcome
- As in overtake : verb catch; pass
- As in pass : verb surpass, beat
- As in shake off : verb lose by getting away
- As in throw off : verb elude, escape
- As in transcend : verb go beyond; surpass
- As in abandon : verb leave in troubled state
- As in get ahead : verb excel, succeed
- This morning there was the loveliest sunshine, and that I was going to leave behind.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- It is the one thing I could not leave behind when I ran away from Mayberry.
- Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Think of the poor people I leave behind me in poverty and in prison.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- Those they leave behind do not know when to look for their return.
- Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
- I doubt me if a man can leave behind him a better fame than that.
- Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
- Rachel had managed to leave behind a feeling of the unimportance of everybody but Rachel.
- Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
- The other side of him is of the earth; it is that he will leave behind him.
- Extract from : « Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green » by Jerome K. Jerome
- But her heart yearned with sad tenderness for all that she was to leave behind.
- Extract from : « Uncle Tom's Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- It's the only record I'll leave behind me except a few dead Injuns.
- Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow
- And leave behind you all that you have hitherto thought so much about, Zara?
- Extract from : « Princess Zara » by Ross Beeckman
Synonyms for leave behind
- abuse
- advance
- allot
- allow
- apportion
- assign
- back out
- be successful
- be superior
- beat
- befall
- bequeath
- bequest
- best
- better
- blow out of water
- bulldoze
- bury
- catch up with
- cede
- clear
- climb
- come upon
- commit
- confide
- consign
- cook
- cream
- deceive
- defeat
- demise
- desert
- devise
- dislodge
- disown
- do in
- do well
- dodge
- down
- drop
- duck
- eclipse
- elude
- engulf
- entrust
- evade
- exceed
- excel
- fake out
- flourish
- forsake
- gain on
- get away from
- get on
- get past
- get rid of
- get to
- give over
- give the slip
- go above
- go beyond
- go by
- go one better
- hand down
- happen
- have
- hit
- jilt
- lay down
- leave
- leave behind
- leave in the dust
- legate
- let
- let be
- let continue
- let go
- let stay
- lick
- lose
- make good
- mislay
- omit
- outclass
- outdistance
- outdo
- outfox
- outgo
- outgun
- outhussle
- outjockey
- outmaneuver
- outpace
- outperform
- outplay
- outrace
- outrival
- outrun
- outshine
- outsmart
- outstrip
- outvie
- overhaul
- overstep
- overtake
- overtop
- overwhelm
- pass
- permit
- progress
- prosper
- pull a fast one
- quit
- reach
- refer
- reject
- remove
- renounce
- rid
- rid oneself of
- rise above
- shake
- shake off
- shoot ahead
- shoot ahead of
- slip away
- snow
- stray
- strike
- suffer
- surmount
- surpass
- take by surprise
- thrive
- throw off
- throw over
- top
- transcend
- transform
- transmit
- trash
- trick
- unburden
- walk out on
- wander from
- will
- win the race
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