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third-person singular simple present leaves out, present participle leaving out, simple past and past participle left out
To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention. quotations examples
But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press
Capello mystifyingly left Ashley Young out despite a match-winning display in the Euro 2012 qualifier win in Wales in March and he only underlined the folly of the decision by emerging as substitute at half-time and striking a fine equaliser six minutes after coming on.
2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, out. examples