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'.

Typed by Dido--From WordNet

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.

Inputed by Hilary

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.

Inputed by Bennett

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

Typed by Edmund

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.

Edited by Jessica

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.

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