"leave off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leaves off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leaving off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "leave<,,left> off"
      },
      "expansion": "leave off (third-person singular simple present leaves off, present participle leaving off, simple past and past participle left off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To omit."
      ],
      "id": "en-leave_off-en-verb-2q5oz-Zm",
      "links": [
        [
          "omit",
          "omit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To omit."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 2 1",
          "sense": "omit",
          "word": "exclude"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 60 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 64 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Leave off hitting him!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To desist; to cease."
      ],
      "id": "en-leave_off-en-verb-gAiX4q~C",
      "links": [
        [
          "desist",
          "desist"
        ],
        [
          "cease",
          "cease"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To desist; to cease."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "let off"
        },
        {
          "word": "let up"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "word": "miss off"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "word": "omit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "alt": "desist",
          "word": "break off"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "word": "have done with"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "word": "desist"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 95 4",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to desist",
          "word": "ĉesi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 95 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to desist",
          "word": "aufhören"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 95 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to desist",
          "word": "kātirawhe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 95 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to desist",
          "word": "waiho atu"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We will now continue where the other team left off.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club",
          "text": "Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC",
          "text": "The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop with a view to resuming at a later point."
      ],
      "id": "en-leave_off-en-verb-p6Yj7muR",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 17 80",
          "sense": "stop with a view to resuming",
          "word": "pause"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 17 80",
          "sense": "stop with a view to resuming",
          "word": "take a break"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-leave off.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-au-leave_off.ogg/En-au-leave_off.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-au-leave_off.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leave off"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leaves off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leaving off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "leave<,,left> off"
      },
      "expansion": "leave off (third-person singular simple present leaves off, present participle leaving off, simple past and past participle left off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To omit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "omit",
          "omit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To omit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Leave off hitting him!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To desist; to cease."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "desist",
          "desist"
        ],
        [
          "cease",
          "cease"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To desist; to cease."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "let off"
        },
        {
          "word": "let up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We will now continue where the other team left off.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club",
          "text": "Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC",
          "text": "The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop with a view to resuming at a later point."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-leave off.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-au-leave_off.ogg/En-au-leave_off.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-au-leave_off.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "omit",
      "word": "exclude"
    },
    {
      "word": "miss off"
    },
    {
      "word": "omit"
    },
    {
      "alt": "desist",
      "word": "break off"
    },
    {
      "word": "have done with"
    },
    {
      "word": "desist"
    },
    {
      "sense": "stop with a view to resuming",
      "word": "pause"
    },
    {
      "sense": "stop with a view to resuming",
      "word": "take a break"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to desist",
      "word": "ĉesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to desist",
      "word": "aufhören"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to desist",
      "word": "kātirawhe"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to desist",
      "word": "waiho atu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leave off"
}