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leaving (root: leave)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun leaving has 1 sense
- leaving(n = noun.act) departure, going, going away - the act of departing; Array is a kind of act, deed, human action, human activity
has particulars: breaking away, farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting, french leave, disappearance, disappearing, withdrawal, sailing, boarding, embarkation, embarkment, exit, despatch, dispatch, shipment, takeoff
THESAURUS
leaving
AWOL, French leave, abandonment, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, casting away, cessation, cut, day off, decampment, default, departure, desuetude, disappearance, disuse, egress, escape, evacuation, excused absence, exit, exodus, fleeing, flight, forsaking, furlough, getaway, going, hegira, holiday, hooky, jettison, jettisoning, leave, leave of absence, nonappearance, nonattendance, parting, passing, pulling out, removal, retirement, retreat, running away, sabbatical leave, sick leave, throwing overboard, truancy, truantism, unexcused absence, vacation, walkout, withdrawal
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