Abandon ship
Leave and abandon ship are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Leave" instead a verb phrase "Abandon ship".
Leave
Leave verb - To cause to remain behind.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Leave Him to Me: In Super Star, Meta Knight makes everyone abandon ship so he could take on Kirby alone, in one of the hardest boss battles in the series.
Source: Franchise / Kirby -
Leave Him to Me: In Revenge of Meta Knight, Meta Knight makes everyone abandon ship so he could take on Kirby alone, in one of the hardest boss battles in the series.
Source: Video Game / Kirby Super Star - Neither man was trained to land the bomber, and neither one was willing to leave the pilot (too badly injured to Abandon Ship) to die in a crash.
Source: Crash Course Landing
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