If someone or something is left off a list, they are not included on that list. She has been deliberately left off the guest list The judge left Walsh's name off the list of those he wanted arrested
If someone leaves off doing something, they stop doing it. We all left off eating and stood about with bowed heads Some of the patients left off treatment. = stop
[ 'lEv ] (verb.) before 12th century. Middle English leven, from Old English l[AE]fan; akin to Old High German verleiben to leave, Old English belIfan to be left over, and perhaps to Lithuanian lipti to adhere, Greek lipos grease, fat.