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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Floy	[flɔi]
Pearl	[pə:l]
Giovanni	jo-VAHN-nee	Italian
Tancredi	-	Italian
Dori	-	Hebrew
Yvonne	ee-VON (French), i-VAWN (English), ee-VAWN (German)	French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish