{
  "id": "leave.movement",
  "term": "leave",
  "sense": "movement",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "leave",
  "domain": "verb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to go away from a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "go.movement",
      "away.spatial",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "go.movement and away.spatial together, grounded in space.extent, create movement from a place in a direction away from it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "departure from a location",
      "directed motion away",
      "spatial separation in progress"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 11 spacecraft left Earth's surface on July 16, 1969, rising from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "At 9:28 AM on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 left the air traffic control radar over Pennsylvania.",
      "domain": "aviation"
    },
    {
      "text": "By 2023, 7.8 million Venezuelans had left their country due to economic collapse, crossing borders into Colombia, Peru, and Brazil.",
      "domain": "migration"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "go.movement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "persist.continue",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "airport.transport",
    "legacy.enduring",
    "rich.abundant",
    "scar.residual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "leave",
    "leaves",
    "leaving",
    "left"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added space.extent as it is foundational to locating 'here' and 'there'; the original definition implicitly depends on it but it was missing in components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-leave.movement"
}