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  1. leave for dead: Merriam-Webster
  2. leave for dead: Collins English Dictionary
  3. leave for dead: Wiktionary

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  1. leave for dead: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (leave for dead)

verb:  (transitive) To abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.
verb:  (figurative, by extension, transitive) To disregard or bypass as unimportant.

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