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Remaining or gone
Answer for the clue "Remaining or gone ", 4 letters:
left
Alternative clues for the word left
Word definitions for left in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Left \Left\, a. [OE. left, lift, luft; akin to Fries. leeft, OD. lucht, luft; cf. AS. left (equiv. to L. inanis), lyft[=a]dl palsy; or cf. AS. l[=e]f weak.] Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Kentish and northern English form of Old English lyft- "weak, foolish" (compare lyft-adl "lameness, paralysis," East Frisian luf , Dutch dialectal loof "weak, worthless"). It emerged 13c. as "opposite of right" (the left being usually the weaker ...
Usage examples of left.
There were no accusations, no questions, instead they simply walked out of the ablutions and left him hanging there.
That fecundation sometimes takes place from right to left and thus produces these abnormal variations.
On examination, we found a very varicose or enlarged condition of the left spermatic veins, and gave it as our opinion that the seminal loss was wholly due to this abnormal condition and could only be cured by an operation that would remove the varicocele.
There he abode a little, wondering at all these things and all that had befallen him since he had left Upmeads.
There were a few lightly coloured Aboriginal boys left and they kept an eye on me.
A small area of abrasion or contusion was on the cheek near the right ear, and a prominent dried abrasion was on the lower left side of the neck.
She showed me a large bruise on her left thigh and healing abrasions on her left knee.
Two officers of the United States navy were walking abreast, unguarded and alone, not looking to the right or left, never frowning, never flinching, while the mob screamed in their ears, shook cocked pistols in their faces, cursed, crowded, and gnashed upon them.
On the twenty-sixth day an abscess formed on the left side below the nipple, and from it was discharged a large quantity of pus and blood.
After a leaf had been left in a weak infusion of raw meat for 10 hours, the cells of the papillae had evidently absorbed animal matter, for instead of limpid fluid they now contained small aggregated masses of protoplasm, which slowly and incessantly changed their forms.
The tented arch is formed by the angle made when the curving ridge above the dot abuts upon the ridge immediately under and to the left of the dot.
The one on the left, however, has an appendage abutting upon the shoulders of its recurve at a right angle.
The hardier swimmers, with Paul, struck out for the abutment on the pier in their usual way and poor Michael was left alone.
You got yourself down that mountain and you left Moon on her own, the way you left Aby lying there for the spooks!
The Academician left the room, returning a minute later with a folder.