jättää heitteille — meaning in English

English meaning

• abandon verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
• strand noun One of the individual threads or wires twisted together to make a rope, cable, or cord.

Senses

jättää heitteille is used for these senses in English:

• abandon (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
• leave someone out in the cold (idiomatic) To deliberately fail to provide someone with support; to ignore or neglect.
• strand (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

abandon — full definition

1. verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
2. verb To give up an activity, plan, or belief completely.
3. noun Total freedom from restraint or inhibition, especially in the phrase "with abandon".

strand — full definition

1. noun One of the individual threads or wires twisted together to make a rope, cable, or cord.
2. noun A single thread or line within a larger story, plan, or set of events.
3. verb To leave someone in a difficult situation, often without transport or resources.
4. verb To run a boat or ship aground.

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