Let

/lɛt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
2. (transitive) To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave alone.
3. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
4. (transitive, chiefly British) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
5. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
6. (auxiliary, transitive) Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
7. (transitive, obsolete except with know or be) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
8. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.

Example Sentences

After he knocked for hours, I decided to let him come in.

Pharaoh said, I will let you go.

If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is[…]

He could not be let die of thirst there alone in the dark.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

Let me be!

Yet neither spinnes nor cardes, ne cares nor frets, / But to her mother Nature all her care she lets.

The physicians let about a pint of his blood, but to no avail.

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Word Forms

• lets
• letting
• let
• leet
• letten
• lett
• lettest
• letteth
• letted

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