leave out

Meanings

verbleave out (third-person singular simple present leaves out, present participle leaving out, simple past and past participle left out)

present singular third person leaves out · participle present leaving out · participle past left out · past left out

To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.
The journalist decided to leave the sleaze out of her story.
3 more examples
The journalist decided to leave out certain details from her story.
But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
Capello mystifyingly left Ashley Young out despite a match-winning display in the Euro 2012 qualifier win in Wales in March and he only underlined the folly of the decision by emerging as substitute at half-time and striking a fine equaliser six minutes after coming on.
2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC
informalTo cease or desist from (a behaviour or activity); see also leave it out.
Hey! Leave out the complaining now, will you?
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, out.
After breakfast, there were still some ingredients left out that needed to be put away.
Synonyms: exclude, miss out, omit