Idiom
leave behind
Meaning
To abandon.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Do not leave behind your bag on the bus.”
“The hikers had to leave behind their heavy gear because the storm was getting worse.”
“In his haste to escape the crumbling city, he was forced to leave behind everything he had spent a lifetime building.”
Examples
simple
“Do not leave behind your bag on the bus.”
contextual
“The hikers had to leave behind their heavy gear because the storm was getting worse.”
complex
“In his haste to escape the crumbling city, he was forced to leave behind everything he had spent a lifetime building.”
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