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Defenition of the word abandon

    • Defenition of the word abandon

      • To give up control of, to surrender.
      • To leave behind definitively or with serious consequences or risks.
      • To leave someone who needs or counts on you.
      • forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"
      • leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
      • give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"
      • stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas, claims, etc; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give in these negociations"
      • the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon"
      • leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"
      • extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
      • a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
      • stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas, claims, etc.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some calims in these negociations"
      • the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
      • a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
      • stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
      • leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
      • leave behind empty; move out of
      • give up with the intent of never claiming again
      • forsake, leave behind

    Synonyms for the word abandon

      • abandonment
      • desert
      • desolate
      • empty
      • forsake
      • give
      • give up
      • libertinism
      • lurch
      • profligacy
      • unconstraint
      • unrestraint
      • vacate
      • wantonness
      • wildness

    Hyponyms for the word abandon

      • chuck
      • consign
      • dispense with
      • ditch
      • expose
      • forego
      • foreswear
      • forfeit
      • forgo
      • give up
      • maroon
      • quit
      • relinquish
      • renounce
      • strand
      • throw overboard
      • waive
      • walk out

    Hypernyms for the word abandon

      • cast aside
      • cast away
      • cast out
      • chuck out
      • discard
      • dispose
      • fling
      • go away
      • go forth
      • leave
      • passion
      • passionateness
      • put away
      • throw away
      • throw out
      • toss
      • toss away
      • toss out
      • unrestraint

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