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leave for dead

leave someone for dead

to abandon someone as being dead. (The abandoned person may actually be alive.) He looked so bad that they almost left him for dead. As the soldiers turned—leaving the enemy captain for dead—the captain fired at them.
See also: dead, leave

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Savannahsə-VAN-əEnglish
Kari (2)KAH-reeFinnish
SÉAmas-Irish
KeriKER-eeEnglish
Adina (1)-Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Hebrew
Ealair-Scottish
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