leave off

Definitions

1. 1

   To omit.

2. 2

   To desist

   To desist; to cease.

   • Leave off hitting him!
3. 3

   To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.

   • We will now continue where the other team left off.
   • Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
   • The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.

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