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let be

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be).
  2. To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive).
  3. Used to assign a value to a symbol.

Equivalents

15 more languages
العربيةودع
Bosanskiлишити
Gàidhligleig le
Hrvatskiлишити
Kurdî
Latviešuir
Românăfie
Српскилишити
Türkçeolsun
Українськалишити
Tiếng Việtđể mặckệ

Examples

Will you never let me be?”
Another answers, ‘Let him be, ⁠He loves to make parade of pain, ⁠That with his piping he may gain The praise that comes to constancy.’”
Let be therefore my vengeaunce to disswade [...].”
Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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