leave out

1. 1.

   prevent from being included or considered or accepted

   “The bad results were excluded from the report”

   “Leave off the top piece”

   Synonymsexcludeexceptleave offomittake out

   Broaderextinguish

   Narrowerelide
2. 2.

   leave undone or leave out

   “How could I miss that typo?”

   “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”

   Synonymsneglectpretermitomitdropmissoverlookoverleap

   Narrowerforgetjump

Questions about leave out

What does leave out mean?

leave out means "prevent from being included or considered or accepted". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for leave out?

Close synonyms include exclude, except, leave off, omit, take out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leave out a common word?

leave out is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.