to deliberately not think about something, especially an unpleasant experience, and not let it affect what you do in the future
to forget to take someone or something with you
to improve or progress much faster than someone or something else
to increase the distance by which you are ahead of someone or something
to not take someone or something with you when you go somewhere
At the base camp they left behind, soon only one blue barrel and one group of tents remained.
Being in a bad mood about something that happened at work is not something you leave behind once you shut your office door.
But the dancer enthuses about the country he left behind.
Employees left behind after redundancies will stay longer if they see that their employer is acting responsibly.
Fashion houses who aren't designing clothes for bigger bodies are going to be left behind.
He had to leave his family behind in Chile.
He leaves behind a country in ruins.
He left behind him a country going to the dogs.
He will leave behind a country that is both ruined and angry.
It is not something I left behind.
It sang sweetly for a minute and went away, leaving behind a deep tranquillity.
It wasn’t until she was halfway home that she realized that she’d left her purse behind.
It's the stuff we've thrown away or left behind.
Many people were left behind and aren't at all happy with the new situation.
My mum's worked hard all her life and now has something to leave behind for her kids which is very important to her.
Q What happens to all the camping gear left behind after a festival?
The ones that take more than a week to go and then leave behind a scar for another month.
The other approach would be via the flint implements and other archaeological remains that were left behind.
The other climbers were fitter and more experienced and I was worried I’d get left behind.
Then it was back to the team and the country he had left behind.
There were none of the items that are usually left behind after preparing explosives devices, suggesting that the syringes had been used for drug taking.
These things certainly take some leaving behind.
They come and go, leaving behind heartburn and skips full of ironic decorations.
Tip off the fat again, leaving behind any dark sauce and gooey bits.
Two tonnes of canisters containing laughing gas were left behind after last year's festival.
What do you do if your husband resents being left behind when you go to church each week?
Wool can have toxic residues left behind after the sheep have been dipped which can remain in the fibre.
a young woman trying to leave behind a difficult adolescence
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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