Leave for dead

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.

2.VerbTo disregard or bypass as unimportant.

Synonyms

leave behind depart abandon dead drop forleave lose leave someone in the lurch beleave leave strand desert disanimate

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