leave off

About 0.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To omit.
2. verb To desist; to cease.

   Leave off hitting him!

3. verb To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.

   We will now continue where the other team left off.

Similar words

exclude take out omit leave out except let off miss off elide cut out leave behind

Word family

leaves off leaving off left off