abandon
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: abandons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abandoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: abandon
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: abandon
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: abandon
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: abandonest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: abandonedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: abandons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abandoneth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: abandon
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: abandon
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: abandon
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: abandoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abandoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abandons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.
gloss: To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.
She abandoned her husband for a new man.
Hope was overthrown, and yet could not be abandoned.
gloss: To subdue; to take control of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
gloss: To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I hereby abandon my position as manager.
gloss: To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: with gay abandon, with wild abandon, with reckless abandon
The Italian painters have an abandon in their chiar' oscuro which mellows up their flesh tints in a way that no other school can imitate : the frigidity of their outline is another remarkable feature, and the harmony of their impasto is unique.
I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
My dreams were largely based on the works of Dickens (his Mugby Junction stories), Thackeray (Jeames on the Gauge Question), and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories I kept devouring with gluttonous abandon.
gloss: Abandonment; relinquishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Synonyms: abdicate
abjure
blin
cast aside
cease
cede
deliver up
depart from
desert
desist from
discontinue
dispense with
drop
forgo
forlet
forsake
forswear
give up
jilt
leave behind
part with
quit
recant
relinquish
renounce
repudiate
resign
retire
retract
run out on
surrender
vacate
waive
withdraw from
withsake
yield
abandon
beleave
bug out
Antonyms: acquire
adopt
advocate
arrogate
cherish
claim
defend
embrace
engage
gain
hold
join
keep
maintain
occupy
protect
retain
undertake
unite
uphold
vindicate
hold the fort
stand one's ground
Related words: flee
Derived words: 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
abandonly
abandonness
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