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abandon
[ uh-ban-duhn ]
verb (used with object)
- 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.
Antonyms:
- 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: , ,
- to give up the control of:
After a long struggle, they abandoned the city to the invading army.
Synonyms: , , , ,
Antonyms:
- 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.
- Law. to cast away, leave, or desert, as property or a child.
- Insurance. to relinquish (insured property) to the underwriter in case of partial loss, thus enabling the insured to claim a total loss.
- Obsolete. to banish.
noun
- 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
- to forsake completely; desert; leave behind
to abandon a baby
drivers had to abandon their cars
- abandon shipthe order given to the crew of a ship that is about to sink to take to the lifeboats
- to give up completely
to abandon a habit
to abandon hope
- to yield control of or concern in; relinquish
to abandon office
- to give up (something begun) before completion
the game was abandoned
to abandon a job
- to surrender (oneself) to emotion without restraint
- 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
noun
- freedom from inhibitions, restraint, concern, or worry
she danced with abandon
Derived Forms
- 补藞产补苍诲辞苍尘别苍迟, noun
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
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of abandon1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of abandon1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
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.
To abandon that baseline requirement of rationality is to abandon economics, period.
Visit the embattled Kennedy Center post-Trump purge, and the place can feel abandoned.
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.
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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