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leavable

adj

Etymology

From leave + -able.

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to stick; fat”
  2. inherited from *laibijaną✻ — “to let stay, leave”
  3. inherited from *laibijan✻
  4. inherited from lǣfan — “to leave”
  5. inherited from leven
  6. suffixed as leavable — “leave + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being left, or departed from.

    • They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty […]

  2. Capable of being left behind.

    • Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife. Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors? Well, obviously, not the chips. The chips would definitely be constituting the bulk of her leavable third.

  3. Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.

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Derived

unleavable

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA