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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for left

location near or direction toward the left side

those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare

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the hand that is on the left side of the body

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the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left

a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east

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being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north

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intended for the left hand

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of or belonging to the political or intellectual left

toward or on the left

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Under these circumstances, but one alternative was left. It was arranged that the child should pass the night in the room occupied by her two younger sisters and the nurse.
'She may quite possibly have been telling Marian some tragic nursery story which has left its mischievous impression behind it.
Long stayed the messenger, and deeper grew his wonder that the Fairy could have left so fair a home, to toil in the dreary palace of his cruel master, and suffer cold and weariness, to give life and joy to the weak and sorrowing.
In my doubt and perplexity, in my vague suspicion of something hidden which I was left to find by my own unaided efforts, I examined Miss Halcombe's looks and manner for enlightenment.
To my relief, the paroxysm left her as suddenly as it had come.
Perhaps it was better for us so -- better that we had only a moment left to look back before the turn in the road hid the last of Combe-Raven from our view.
On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side, the king's smith conveyed four-score and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left leg with six-and-thirty padlocks.
"It was near this time of the month, eighteen years ago, that my poor father left this world for a better.
Her sylvan table was the moss-covered trunk of a large fallen tree, on the broadest part of which she had spread a snow-white cloth and arranged what were left of the bright pewter vessels that had been her pride in the settlements.
We have harmed nothing, but have left many things for you which may add to your comfort and safety here in your lonely home.
Continue towards the housing estate with the wall to your left.
Meanwhile, he attacks anyone on the left who disagreed with his take on Nicaragua--even where the actual disagreement is hard to discern.
ON the left side of the church enter the private drive next to Church Lane and immediately turn left through a kissing gate and go forward to a similar gate next to the thatched cottage.
After Reagan's budget director David Stockman wrote a book pillorying his former administration, The Washington Post asked him whether he had any friends left in Washington.
To be a diagonal walker move the left front foot and the right rear foot forward at the same time.