abandon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæn.dən/
Forms: form: abandons
form: abandoning
form: abandoned
form: abandoned
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Etymology: From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (whence English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave.
Senses: examples: text: […] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.
ref: 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 3, page 312:
glosses: To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
examples: text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
glosses: To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
examples: text: Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
text: He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.
text: She abandoned her husband for a new man.
text: Hope was overthrown, and yet could not be abandoned.
ref: 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, page 3:
glosses: To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
glosses: To subdue; to take control of.
examples: text: Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act I, scene ii:
glosses: To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
examples: text: I hereby abandon my position as manager.
glosses: To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
glosses: To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
Synonyms: word: abdicate
word: abjure
word: blin
word: cast aside
word: cease
word: cede
word: deliver up
word: depart from
word: desert
word: desist from
word: discontinue
word: dispense with
word: drop
word: forgo
word: forlet
word: forsake
word: forswear
word: give up
word: jilt
word: leave behind
word: part with
word: quit
word: recant
word: relinquish
word: renounce
word: repudiate
word: resign
word: retire
word: retract
word: run out on
word: surrender
word: vacate
word: waive
word: withdraw from
word: withsake
word: yield
word: abandon
word: beleave
word: bug out
Hypernyms: word: leave
word: retreat
word: give up
Hyponyms: word: abdicate
word: jilt
word: leave in the lurch
word: leave somebody holding the bag
word: retire
Derived terms: aband
abandonability
abandonable
abandoned
abandonee
abandoner
abandon hope, all ye who enter here
abandonment
abandon ship
abandonware
all hope abandon ye who enter here
reabandon
unabandon
Related terms: word: flee