Refugees on the run must sometimes leave old and sick people behind.
We had reached our car when we noticed that we had left our keys behind.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
leave behind — index abandon (physically leave), surpass Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
leave behind — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms leave behind : present tense I/you/we/they leave behind he/she/it leaves behind present participle leaving behind past tense left behind past participle left behind 1) leave someone/something behind to… … English dictionary
leave behind — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you leave someone or something behind, you go away permanently from them. [V n P] Many of the women had left their husbands behind and they told of their fears that they may never see them again... [V P n (not pron)] We hear of … English dictionary
leave behind — phr verb Leave behind is used with these nouns as the object: ↑clue, ↑legacy, ↑trouble … Collocations dictionary
leave behind — leave something somewhere I left my coat behind in the restaurant … Idioms and examples
leave behind sth; leave sth behind — UK US leave behind sth; leave sth behind Phrasal Verb with leave({{}}/liːv/ verb (past tense and past participle left /left/) ► to cause a situation to exist, especially a bad one, after you have gone: »The army left a trail of destruction behind … Financial and business terms
leave behind — verb 1. depart and not take along (Freq. 5) He left behind all his possessions when he moved to Europe • Hyponyms: ↑outdistance, ↑outstrip, ↑distance • Verb Group: ↑leave … Useful english dictionary
leave behind — {v. phr.} 1. Abandon. * /Refugees on the run must sometimes leave old and sick people behind./ 2. To forget; go away without. * /We had reached our car when we noticed that we had left our keys behind./ … Dictionary of American idioms
leave behind — {v. phr.} 1. Abandon. * /Refugees on the run must sometimes leave old and sick people behind./ 2. To forget; go away without. * /We had reached our car when we noticed that we had left our keys behind./ … Dictionary of American idioms
leave behind — Synonyms and related words: abandon, back out, beg off, bereave, catch up with, come up to, come up with, cry off, depart from, discard, distance, drop out, evacuate, forsake, gain on, gain upon, get ahead of, go back on, hold the field, jettison … Moby Thesaurus
