📚 adj • entry_id 1784
left
/ˈlɛft/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
izquierda
Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
Near-synonym: port
The left side.
de izquierda
Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone desc…
Who does not know the practical man who in his own field denounces socialism as "pernicious rot" but when he steps outside his subject spouts socialism like any left journalist.
Phrases
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
dejar
To have a consequence or remnant.
I left my car at home and took a bus to work.
The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread.
abandonar • abjurar • apostatar • defeccionar • dejar • desertar • salir de
To depart; to separate from.
I left the country and I left my wife.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve…
dejar • legar
To transfer something.
When my father died, he left me the house.
dejar • depositar
To transfer something.
I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
dejar
To transfer something.
Can't we just leave this to the experts?
Phrases
I have to love you and leave youI'll leave it up to youLeaverbe left holding the babybe left kickingbeleaveeat and leave no crumbsforleaveleavableleave a lot to be desiredleave a markleave a sour taste in one's mouthleave aloneleave asideleave at the doorleave beleave behindleave for deadleave for dustleave homeleave it all on the fieldleave it all out thereleave it aloneleave it at thatleave it beleave it outleave little to the imaginationleave me aloneleave much to be desiredleave no crumbsleave no stone unturnedleave no traceleave nothing in the tankleave nothing to the imaginationleave offleave onleave on the tableleave one's markleave one's options openleave one's stamp