"leave out" meaning in English

See leave out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: leaves out [present, singular, third-person], leaving out [participle, present], left out [participle, past], left out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|leave<,,left> out}} leave out (third-person singular simple present leaves out, present participle leaving out, simple past and past participle left out)
  1. To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.
    Sense id: en-leave_out-en-verb-65x7eycz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "out", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "out": 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, out. Synonyms: exclude, miss out, omit Derived forms: leave it out
    Sense id: en-leave_out-en-verb-YpWj2Py0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "out", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "out": 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The journalist decided to leave out certain details from her story.",
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        "To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention."
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "miss out"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
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          "text": "The journalist decided to leave out certain details from her story.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "The journalist decided to leave the sleaze out of her story.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:",
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          "text": "Capello mystifyingly left Ashley Young out despite a match-winning display in the Euro 2012 qualifier win in Wales in March and he only underlined the folly of the decision by emerging as substitute at half-time and striking a fine equaliser six minutes after coming on.",
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    {
      "word": "exclude"
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    {
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      "word": "omit"
    }
  ],
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}

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