Sekirov Dictionary

abandon

/əˈbæn.dən/

verb 7
noun 2
forms 7

verb7

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to go away from someone or something and never return, leaving them without help or care
- Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
- He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.
To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
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To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
- […] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice. — 1856
•
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
- I hereby abandon my position as manager.
To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
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(no longer used) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
- Being all this time abandoned from your bed. — 1594
(no longer used) To subdue; to take control of.

noun2

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A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
- I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.' — 1954
(no longer used) Abandonment; relinquishment.

forms

abandon'd · abandoned · abandonedst · abandoning · abandoneth · abandons · abandonest

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