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leese¹

  • /liːz/

Sounds like lees, leas · Rhymes with -iːz

Where it comes from

From Middle English lesen, from Old English lēosan, from Proto-West Germanic *leusan, from Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut; sever; separate; loosen; lose”).

verb leeses · leesing · lore · leesed · lorn

  1. obsolete To lose. But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
  2. obsolete To destroy.
  3. obsolete To forsake or abandon.

leese²

  • /liːz/

Sounds like lees, leas · Rhymes with -iːz

Where it comes from

From Middle English lesen, from Old English lȳsan, līesan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijaną (“to release, loosen”). Cognate with Dutch lozen, German lösen, Swedish lösa.

verb leeses · leesing · leesed · lease

  1. obsolete, transitive To release; let go; set free.
  2. obsolete To loosen, unfasten.

leese³

  • /liːz/

Sounds like lees, leas · Rhymes with -iːz

Where it comes from

Compare French léser, Latin laesus.

verb

  1. obsolete, transitive To hurt.

Leese⁴

proper noun Leeses

  1. A surname.

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