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"(transitive) To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be)."
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"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "leig le"
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"To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive)."
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"(intransitive, archaic) To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive)."
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"text": "Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J."
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"(mathematics) Used to assign a value to a symbol."
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"word": "设...为"
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"sense": "used to assign a value",
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"sense": "used to assign a value",
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"(transitive) To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be)."
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"(mathematics) Used to assign a value to a symbol."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fàngrèn",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "放任"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "聽任"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tìngrèn",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "听任"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "lade være"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "antaa olla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "jättää rauhaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "laisser tranquille"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "in Ruhe lassen"
},
{
"alt": "ほうっておく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hōtte oku",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "放っておく"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hottoku",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "ほっとく"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ostavljátʹ v pokóje",
"sense": "not disturb",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оставля́ть в поко́е"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ostávitʹ v pokóje",
"sense": "not disturb",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оста́вить в поко́е"
},
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "not disturb",
"word": "leig le"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stop",
"word": "lakata"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"word": "设...为"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"word": "lade være"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"word": "olkoon"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"tags": [
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"singular"
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"word": "soit"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"tags": [
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"word": "soient"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"word": "sei"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "to suru",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"word": "とする"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"word": "fie"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "used to assign a value",
"word": "olsun"
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],
"word": "let be"
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