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lasciare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • allow verb To give permission for something to happen.
  • drop noun A small round blob of liquid.
  • lay verb To put something down, especially in a flat or resting position.
  • leave verb To go away from a place or person.
  • let verb To allow someone or something to do a particular thing, or to happen without stopping it.
  • quit verb To resign from a job or position.
  • relinquish verb To give up or hand over a right, position, or possession, often reluctantly.
  • resign verb To formally give up a job or position.
  • secede verb To formally withdraw from a country, federation, alliance or other organisation, ending membership of it.
  • suffer verb To experience pain, hardship, or distress.

Senses

lasciare is used for these senses in English:

  • allow (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  • allow (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  • drop (transitive, ergative, also, figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). [from 14th c.]
  • leave (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
  • leave (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
  • quit (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
  • relinquish (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something; to trade away.
  • resign (transitive, or, intransitive) To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status. [from 14th c.]

allow — full definition

  1. verb To give permission for something to happen.
  2. verb To make something possible.
  3. verb To set aside time, money, or another resource for something.
  4. verb To admit or acknowledge something as true, often reluctantly.

drop — full definition

  1. noun A small round blob of liquid.
  2. verb To let something fall, or to fall oneself.
  3. verb To release something (a song, product, or piece of information) to the public.
  4. verb To stop doing, discuss, or associate with something; to abandon it.

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