Clues for the word "LEAVE"
We've had 186 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 646 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on January 06, 2026.
Definition of leave
- v. i. - To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
- v. t. - To raise; to levy.
- n. - Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
- n. - The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
- v. - To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
- v. - To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
- v. - To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
- v. - To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
- v. - To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
- v. - To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.
- v. - To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.
- v. i. - To depart; to set out.
- v. i. - To cease; to desist; to leave off.
Referring Clues
- "Scram!"
- Liberty
- What all partygoers eventually take
- Split
- Depart
- Buzz off
- Sabbatical, e.g.
- Bid adieu
- Bequeath
- Sailor's time off
- "Get out!"
- Demand at a breakup
- Maternity ___
- Shove off
- Sailor's respite
- The "L" in AWOL
- Turn green
- "Out!"
- Go out
- The "L" of AWOL
- Exit
- Sailor's shore time
- The "L" in 51-Down
- Way off base?
- Hit the road
- Skedaddle
- Head out
- Break from service
- Permission
- Take a powder
- Furlough
- Go
- "Get outta here!"
- AWOL part
- Time on shore
- Part of AWOL
- Take off
- Go away
- Extended absence
- Time off
- Permission to be absent
- Vacate the premises
- Run off
- Maternity time off
- Get away
- Exit the premises
- Walk out the door
- Brigade's break
- Cease to be seen
- Head for the exit
- Sarge's vacation
- Get out of town
- Skip town
- Part of 64 Across
- Swab's break
- Get outta Dodge
- Service break?
- Shore time for a sailor
- Split, so to speak
- Sabbatical
- Sailor's vacation
- Use the exit
- Roll out
- Breakup command
- Army vacation
- Quit
- "___ It to Beaver"
- Take off or time off
- Set off
- Plea to the unwelcome
- It might be taken by a sailor
- Run along
- "Make like a tree and ___!"
- Get moving
- Omits
- Word after maternity or shore
- Walk away
- Clear out
- Head for the hills
- Pull up stakes
- Breakup demand
- Make tracks
- Get going
- Part of 35 Down
- Write in nothing
- Bug out
- "Begone!"
- Skiddoo
- Fleet Week break
- Get out of Dodge
- Make an exit
- Make like a tree, facetiously
- Go out of
- Beat it
- Make one's way out
- Servicemen love it
- ___ no stone unturned
- With 16-Down, what "stet" means
- Hit the bricks
- Part company
- What to take when you go
- Vacate
- Make one's exit
- Popeye's time off?
- Produce foliage
- Don't take
- Permission to go
- Head out the door
- Vacation
- Absent oneself
- Don't touch and go
- Don't take time off
- Don't take a holiday
- Permission to do something
- "If You ___ Me Now" (Chicago)
- What Pink didn't want her man to do on the "Funhouse" album
- Yes hit "___ It"
- Stones "Take It or ___ It"
- "I don't want to ___ you lonely, you got to make me change my mind"
- The 18 farewell?
- Depart (on holiday?)
- Relinquish - holiday
- The French way, it seems, needn't be French!
- Go half a mile, just a short way
- Permission to abandon
- Don't take what's taken on departure
- Break you repair
- Permission - depart
- Withdraw permission
- Don't take a vacation
- Run out on holiday
- The French greeting on holiday
- Permission to depart
- Abandon holiday
- Permission (to take holidays?)
- The French hail freedom
- Holiday
- Part of holiday
- Permission - time off
- Left one in the day before, with permission
- Surrender the French way
- Go for one in unfinished 22
- Something taken by new parents?
- The French "hail and farewell"
- Permission to resign
- Don't bother about holidays
- What jewel thieves do on course to aim for a perfect job
- The French greeting when on holiday
- Abandon
- Be off
- Order to go
- Word after sick or shore
- Push off and break
- Soldier's time off
- Don't take, when you hand down to
- Go off and you don't eat
- Go the French way
- Take a hike
- Permission to quit?
- "Go now!"
- Don't bring
- Order to party crashers
- That taken the French way, in short?
- Something a new parent might take
- Vamoose
- GI's furlough
- Shore thing for a sailor?
- Don't wait for permission!
- Parental ___
- Will, if you forsake
- Workplace benefit for a new parent
- Formal permission
- Military time off
- Marine's break
- Go the French way?
- Period of absence
- Go off and abandon
- Go out the door
- Bail, so to speak
- "Don't ___ Me This Way"
- Say good-bye
- Time out
- Head home
- Dip out
- Will or won't stay
- Job perk that might accumulate
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - January 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 07, 2025
- Daily American - November 06, 2025
- New York Times - November 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 14, 2025
- LA Times - September 05, 2025
- New York Times - August 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 30, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 13, 2025
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