Leave and Withhold

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Leave

Leave verb - To cause to remain behind.
Usage example: starry-eyed lovers who promise never to leave one another
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Withhold is an antonym for leave in give topic.
Nearby Words: leaving, leaven, leaved, leaver

Withhold

Withhold verb - To be unwilling to grant.
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Leave is an antonym for withhold.
Nearby Word: withholding
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Common collocations

time leave time withhold time
money leave money withhold money
game leave game withhold game
evidence leave evidence withhold evidence
Other words: daughter.

Both words in one sentence

  • Similarily, no one seems to keep good track of your things you leave in Britannia either - in U6, you have to run all over the land to collect the Runes that people misplace, hide and even withhold from you.
    Source: Bag Of Spilling / Video Games
  • If a culture considers its traditional rites important to a soul's safe passage to the beyond, then they can withhold the rites to ensure the wicked soul's damnation, or leave them Barred from the Afterlife entirely (which would be blasphemous itself, trying to rob God(s) out of the choice).
    Source: Dishonored Dead
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