Leave and Stayed

Opposite meaning words

Leave verb - To cause to remain behind.

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Stayed is an antonym for leave.

Nearby Words: leaving, leaven, leaved, leaver

Definitions of Leave not found.

Leave is an antonym for stayed in topics: visit, wait, hold in abeyance.

Nearby Words: stay, staying, stayer

Unfortunately for her, the book will never change, and she would have stayed in the library for all eternity, until Subaru convinces her to leave.

Source: Light Novel / Re:Zero
Doing so would have made the border states (slave states that stayed in the Union) leave.

Source: Useful Notes / The American Civil War
More crucially, he gets around the fact that the other party members left their cells by stating that the five of them, as in collectively, didn't leave the cells (he stayed in his).

Source: Exact Words / Web Comics

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