Abandon
[ə'bænd(ə)n] or [ə'bændən]
Definition
(noun.) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry; 'she danced with abandon'.
(verb.) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; 'He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage'; 'Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations'.
(verb.) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; 'The mother deserted her children'.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) forsake, leave behind; 'We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
(v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
(v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
(v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
(v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.
(n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Leave, relinquish, quit, forsake, desert, evacuate, drop, abjure, forswear, give over, cast off, retire from, withdraw from.[2]. Surrender, cede, yield, resign, forego, renounce, waive, vacate, ABDICATE, deliver up, give up, part with, let go, lay down.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Leave, forsake, desert, renounce, cease, relinquish, discontinue, castoff,resign, retire, quit, forego, forswear, depart_from, vacate, surrender, abjure,repudiate
ANT:Pursue, prosecute, undertake, seek, court, cherish, favor, protect, claim,maintain, defend, advocate, retain, support, uphold, occupy, haunt, hold,assert, vindicate, keep
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Definition
v.t. to give up: to desert: to yield (one's self) without restraint (with to).—v.t. Aband′ (Spens.) to abandon.—n. Aban′don (n to be nasalised) freedom from conventional restraints: careless freedom of manners.—adj. Aban′doned given up as to a vice: profligate: completely deserted: very wicked.—adv. Aban′donedly.—n. Aban′donment act of abandoning: state of being given up: enthusiastic surrender of self to a cause: (law) the renunciation of a claim.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are abandoned, denotes that you will have difficulty in framing your plans for future success. To abandon others, you will see unhappy conditions piled thick around you, leaving little hope of surmounting them. If it is your house that you abandon, you will soon come to grief in experimenting with fortune. If you abandon your sweetheart, you will fail to recover lost valuables, and friends will turn aside from your favors. If you abandon a mistress, you will unexpectedly come into a goodly inheritance. If it is religion you abandon, you will come to grief by your attacks on prominent people. To abandon children, denotes that you will lose your fortune by lack of calmness and judgment. To abandon your business, indicates distressing circumstances in which there will be quarrels and suspicion. (This dream may have a literal fulfilment if it is impressed on your waking mind, whether you abandon a person, or that person abandons you, or, as indicated, it denotes other worries.) To see yourself or friend abandon a ship, suggests your possible entanglement in some business failure, but if you escape to shore your interests will remain secure.
Checker: Newman
Examples
- I conjured him, incoherently, but in the most impassioned manner, not to abandon himself to this wildness, but to hear me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He would inform you that it is against all rule to abandon the lady's money entirely to the man she marries. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As if a gentleman could abandon his own country! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Ah, don't say that, he cried; say what's true: that you abandon me like the others. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It would be wisdom to abandon it now, after all the time, anxiety, and pains I have bestowed upon it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He would abandon a hero's or a martyr's end gladly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ferdinand, the brother of Charles V, took over his abandoned work and met the German princes at the diet of Augsburg in 1555. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He abandoned the resin as a sensitive material, and went back to the salts of silver. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly have exhibited greater consternation. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And that poor bloody Sordo abandoning his pidgin Spanish to explain it to him so carefully. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The crusaders were abandoning even their loot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You may also tell him, from me, that after abandoning his worldly goods and position to this butcherly mob, I wonder he is not at the head of them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- During the night the enemy quitted our right front, abandoning some of their wounded, and without burying their dead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Borne outward by the retreating waters, the light craft swept past him, but he also, abandoning himself to the waves, was carried seaward. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- His mother drew a long breath, and, abandoning the visit to Thomasin, turned back. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This complicated process having been effected, the party walked slowly forward, leading the horse among them, and abandoning the chaise to its fate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Please tell Madame Olenska that we shall all feel lost when she abandons our street. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- While she is gone, the surgeon abandons his hopeless investigation and covers its subject with the patchwork counterpane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons himself to his destiny. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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