How to pronounce “leave for dead”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.
• (figurative, by extension, transitive) To disregard or bypass as unimportant.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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