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out, fly, Colloq push or shove off, take off, skedaddle, flit,
disappear, do a disappearing act, pull up stakes, up-anchor,
Slang beat it, scram, vamoose, split, Brit beetle off, do a
bunk, do a moonlight flit, hop it, Taboo slang Brit bugger off:
Please leave at once. May I leave the room? She left him alone.
2 go or run off, deviate from: The car left the road and hit a
tree. 3 forget, mislay, lose: I left my car keys somewhere in
the house. 4 abandon, desert, take leave of, wash one's hands
of, turn one's back on; quit, resign from, give up, renounce,
drop (out of): She left him because he mistreated her. I left
school at sixteen. 5 make, render, cause to be or become or
remain: The beauty of the place left me speechless. 6
bequeath, will, hand down, devise, demise, transfer: Her aunt
left some valuable paintings to my wife. 7 entrust, commit,
assign, cede, relinquish, give over or up, consign, resign:
They are leaving all the responsibility to me. 8 cause or allow
to remain, have as a remainder, yield, give: Seven from eleven
leaves four. 9 leave off. stop, cease, desist, forbear, give
up, refrain from, discontinue, abstain (from), renounce: He
won't leave off gossiping about her. 10 leave out. omit,
disregard, ignore, neglect; count out, reject, exclude,
eliminate, bar, except: You left out the best part. Don't leave
me out of the fun!
leaveý n. 1 permission, authorization, consent, freedom, liberty,
licence, sanction, dispensation: Who gave you leave to borrow
my car? 2 furlough, leave of absence, time off, sabbatical,
recess, holiday, vacation: I am overworked and badly in need of
some leave. 3 departure: He took his leave of us at last.
lecherous adj. lewd, lascivious, salacious, libidinous, sensual,
lubricious or lubricous, lustful, concupiscent, licentious,
prurient, dirty-minded, filthy-minded, carnal, goatish, hircine,
randy, libertine, wanton, profligate, depraved, degenerate,
decadent, dissolute, Slang horny: The lecherous villain dared
to proposition my wife.
lecture n. 1 speech, address, talk, discourse, disquisition, treatise,
dissertation, paper, lesson, instruction, sermon, declamation,
harangue, diatribe, philippic, screed: The preacher delivered a
lecture on the evils of drink. 2 reproof, reprimand, rebuke,
criticism, censure, reproach, scolding, upbraiding, chiding,
berating, tongue-lashing, remonstration, Colloq dressing-down,