亚洲网紅露点

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abandon

[ uh-ban-duhn ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert:

    The crew finally abandoned the sinking ship and boarded a lifeboat.

    He abandoned his wife and children, leaving them in poverty.

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  2. to give up; withdraw from; discontinue:

    She had to abandon the research project when the grant money dried up.

    I鈥檝e abandoned all hope of a stage career.

    Antonyms: , ,

  3. to give up the control of:

    After a long struggle, they abandoned the city to the invading army.

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  4. to yield (oneself) without restraint or moderation; give (oneself) over to natural impulses, usually without self-control:

    After the breakup, he fell apart and abandoned himself to grief.

  5. Law. to cast away, leave, or desert, as property or a child.
  6. Insurance. to relinquish (insured property) to the underwriter in case of partial loss, thus enabling the insured to claim a total loss.
  7. Obsolete. to banish.


noun

  1. a complete surrender to natural impulses without restraint or moderation; freedom from inhibition:

    During this retreat you will learn to play and dance with reckless abandon.

abandon

/ 蓹藞产忙苍诲蓹苍 /

verb

  1. to forsake completely; desert; leave behind

    to abandon a baby

    drivers had to abandon their cars

  2. abandon ship
    the order given to the crew of a ship that is about to sink to take to the lifeboats
  3. to give up completely

    to abandon a habit

    to abandon hope

  4. to yield control of or concern in; relinquish

    to abandon office

  5. to give up (something begun) before completion

    the game was abandoned

    to abandon a job

  6. to surrender (oneself) to emotion without restraint
  7. to give (insured property that has suffered partial loss or damage) to the insurers in order that a claim for a total loss may be made
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. freedom from inhibitions, restraint, concern, or worry

    she danced with abandon

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 补藞产补苍诲辞苍尘别苍迟, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 补路产补苍路诲辞苍路补路产濒别 adjective
  • 补路产补苍路诲辞苍路别谤 noun
  • 补路产补苍路诲辞苍路尘别苍迟 noun
  • 耻苍路补路产补苍路诲辞苍路颈苍驳 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of abandon1

First recorded in 1325鈥75; Middle English verb abando(u)nen, from Middle French abandoner, from Old French (mettre) a bandon 鈥(put) under (someone's) jurisdiction,鈥 equivalent to a 鈥渁t, to鈥 (from Latin ad; ad- ) + bandon, from Germanic band (unrecorded); bond 1; noun derivative of the verb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of abandon1

C14: abandounen (vb), from Old French, from a bandon under one's control, in one's power, from a at, to + bandon control, power
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Synonym Study

See desert 2. Abandon, relinquish, renounce mean to give up all concern in something. Abandon means to give up or discontinue any further interest in something because of discouragement, weariness, distaste, or the like: to abandon one's efforts. Relinquish implies being or feeling compelled to give up something one would prefer to keep: to relinquish a long-cherished desire. Renounce implies making (and perhaps formally stating) a voluntary decision to give something up: to renounce worldly pleasures.
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On top of that, he's put the U.S. military in the hands of a weekend TV show host so out of his depth that even his closest allies are abandoning ship.

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To abandon that baseline requirement of rationality is to abandon economics, period.

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Visit the embattled Kennedy Center post-Trump purge, and the place can feel abandoned.

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This is just the beginning of massive, unimaginable suffering that's going to happen over the next year as America betrays its values and abandons the most vulnerable people in the world.

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At this point, what started as a throwaway joke has grown into something vaguely earnest 鈥 too big to fail and too enmeshed in the neighborhood to be abandoned in good conscience.

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