Synonyms for leaf
lif; livzleaf

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1. leafverb

   Synonyms:
   leave

2. leafverb

   To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

   Synonyms:
   leave

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1. leaf, leafage, foliagenoun

   the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

   Synonyms:
   foliation, folio, leafage, foliage

2. leaf, folionoun

   a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

   Synonyms:
   pagination, folio, page number, leafage, foliage, paging

3. leafverb

   hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

   Synonyms:
   folio, leafage, foliage

4. flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riffverb

   look through a book or other written material

   "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"

   Synonyms:
   thumb, pitch, throw, twitch, click, toss, flip over, switch, turn over, flick, riff, tack, alternate, riffle, flip, ripple, interchange, snap, flip-flop, flip out, flicker, hitch, ruffle, finger, jerk, cockle, sky, hitchhike, undulate

5. leafverb

   turn over pages

   "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"

   Synonyms:
   riff, thumb, flick, flip, riffle

6. leafverb

   produce leaves, of plants

   Synonyms:
   riff, thumb, flick, flip, riffle

Matched Categories

1. • Grow
   • Plant Organ
   • Turn

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1. leafnoun

   Synonyms:
   blade

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1. leafnoun

   Synonyms:
   blade, spire, folio, lithophyll (fossil leaf)

   Associated words:
   foliar, foliferous, foliaceous, foliation, defoliate, defoliation, frond, bract, frondation, frondesce, frondescence, verticil, whorl, acanthus deciduous, indeciduous

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1. List of paraphrases for "leaf":

   foliar, sheet, sheets, leaves, foliage, map, blade, streamside, slip, refill, road, sheeting, worksheet, needle

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1. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz:

   They're turning over every leaf and blade of grass to see if there is anything else out there.

2. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   Is Russia really committed to a peace process or is it using the peace process as a fig leaf to try to deliver some kind of military victory for Assad that creates an Alawite mini state in the northwest of Syria?

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

4. Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt:

   They recognized what it was once everything started to leaf out.

5. Henry David Thoreau:

   We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.