leave alone

Variant of alone

alone definition

alone (ə lōn′)

adjective, adverb

  1. apart from anything or anyone else the hut stood alone on the prairie
  2. without involving any other person to walk alone
  3. without anything further; with nothing more; only the carton alone weighs two pounds
  4. without equal or peer to stand alone as an example of courage

Etymology: ME < al, all + one, one

alone Idioms

let alone

  1. to refrain from bothering or interfering with
    also leave alone
  2. not to speak of we hadn't a dime, let alone a dollar

let well enough alone

to be content with things as they are and not try to improve them

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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