The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty:
— A ten day's leave to visit his mother.

synonym: leave of absence.

Roget 760: permission, leave; allowance, sufferance; tolerance, toleration; liberty, law, license, concession, grace; indulgence etc. (lenity) 740; favor, dispensation, exemption, release; connivance; vouchsafement^†.    authorization, warranty, accordance, admission.    permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm^†; pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche [Fr.], ticket of leave; grant, charter; patent, letters patent.    ... show more

Dutch: congé
Polish: urlop

Permission to do something.

The act of departing politely:
— He took his leave.

synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting.

Dutch: afscheid

Go away from a place:
— At what time does your train leave?.
— She didn't leave until midnight.
— The ship leaves at midnight.

synonyms: go away, go forth.

Roget 44: be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.    disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^†; divorce, part, dispart^†, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock etc. (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free etc. (liberate) 750.    sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind^†; circumcise; cut; incide^†, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c., rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch^†, crunch, craunch^†, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind^†, lacerate, scamble^†, mangle, gash, hash, slice.    cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb^†; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate^†; skin etc. 226; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch^†, disband; disperse etc. 73; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute etc. (pulverize) 330; apportion etc. 786.    part, part company; separate, leave.    ... show more

Roget 624: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate etc. (resign) 757.    renounce etc. (abjure) 607; forego, have done with, drop; disuse etc. 678; discard etc. 782; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of.    break off, leave off; desist; stop etc. (cease) 142; hold one's hand, stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop.    throw up the game, throw up the cards; give up the point, give up the argument; pass to the order of the day, move to the previous question.    ... show more

Roget 40: remain; be left etc. adj.; exceed, survive; leave.   

Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness.

Act or be so as to become in a specified state.

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking:
— Leave it as is.
— Leave the young fawn alone.
— Leave the flowers that you see in the park behind.

synonyms: leave alone, leave behind, let alone.

Dutch: met rust laten

Move out of or depart from:
— Leave the room.

synonyms: exit, get out, go out.

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain:
— This leaves no room for improvement.
— Leave lots of time for the trip.

synonyms: allow, allow for, provide.

Dutch: laten

Produce as a result or residue.

synonyms: lead, result.

Dutch: achterlaten, nalaten

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in:
— She wants to leave.

synonyms: depart, pull up stakes.

Put into the care or protection of someone:
— Leave your child in the nurse's care.

synonym: entrust.

Leave or give by will after one's death.

synonyms: bequeath, will.

Dutch: overdragen, legateren, deponeren, nalaten

Have left or have as a remainder.

Be survived by after one's death.

synonym: leave behind.

Transmit (knowledge or skills):
— Leave your name and address here.

synonyms: give, impart, pass on.

Roget 784: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.    present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.    pay etc. 807; render, impart, communicate.    concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend etc. 809.    give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign.    intrust, consign, vest in.    make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota.    invest, endow, settle upon; bequeath, leave, devise.    furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.    tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer etc. 763; sacrifice, immolate.    ... show more

Dutch: communiceren, mededelen, verdelen, delen

Leave behind unintentionally.

synonym: forget.

Dutch: nalaten, vergeten