"leave someone on read" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɹɛd/ Forms: leaves someone on read [present, singular, third-person], leaving someone on read [participle, present], left someone on read [participle, past], left someone on read [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|leave<,,left> someone on read}} leave someone on read (third-person singular simple present leaves someone on read, present participle leaving someone on read, simple past and past participle left someone on read)
  1. (Internet slang) To read someone's message or messages and not give any response, particularly on an instant messaging application where a user can see whether or not their interlocutor has read their message. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Social media Synonyms: leave someone on seen, bluetick Translations (read someone's message and not give any response): 已讀不回 (Chinese Mandarin), 已读不回 (yǐ dú bù huí) (Chinese Mandarin), jättää jonkun viestit luetuksi (Finnish), lasciare il visualizzato (Italian), 既読スルー (kidoku surū) (Japanese), 既読無視 (kidoku mushi) (Japanese), 읽씹하다 (ikssiphada) (Korean), reade (Norwegian Bokmål), dejar en visto (Spanish), clavar el visto [Argentina, Uruguay] (Spanish), görüldü atmak [intransitive] (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-leave_someone_on_read-en-verb-zf03h8BX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2018, “I Do”, performed by Cardi B ft. SZA",
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          "ref": "2021, Mandy Hale, Don't Believe the Swipe: Finding Love without Losing Yourself, Baker Books",
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          "word": "已讀不回"
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
      "word": "已讀不回"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
      "word": "lasciare il visualizzato"
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      "word": "既読スルー"
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
      "word": "既読無視"
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
      "word": "reade"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
      "word": "dejar en visto"
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
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      "word": "clavar el visto"
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      "sense": "read someone's message and not give any response",
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