Abandon

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.

Compare abandon with other words:

abandon vs. departure

abandon vs. recklessness

abandon vs. bandon

abandon vs. jilt

abandon vs. release

abandon vs. abnegation

abandon vs. prohibit

abandon vs. forgive

abandon vs. villain

abandon vs. beleave

abandon vs. refuse

abandon vs. ship

abandon vs. abnegate

abandon vs. obsolete

abandon vs. live

abandon vs. surplus

abandon vs. accept

abandon vs. leaving

abandon vs. jettison

abandon vs. abolish

abandon vs. betray

abandon vs. mobile

abandon vs. left

abandon vs. repudiate

abandon vs. estranged

abandon vs. ignore

abandon vs. eliminate

abandon vs. disclaim

abandon vs. neglect

abandon vs. discard

abandon vs. dessert

abandon vs. disuse

abandon vs. ditcher

abandon vs. deserted

abandon vs. claim

abandon vs. lese

abandon vs. reprobate

abandon vs. desolate

abandon vs. arrogate

abandon vs. forlese

abandon vs. evacuate

abandon vs. flake

abandon vs. abstain

abandon vs. strand

abandon vs. waive

abandon vs. redeem

abandon vs. defect

abandon vs. content

abandon vs. falter

abandon vs. ditch

abandon vs. abandoning

abandon vs. rescue

abandon vs. bury

abandon vs. expose

abandon vs. forgo

abandon vs. maroon

abandon vs. laugh

abandon vs. forlorn

abandon vs. ease

abandon vs. abort

abandon vs. unconstraint

abandon vs. profligacy

abandon vs. libertinism

abandon vs. unrestraint

abandon vs. wantonness

abandon vs. relinquishment

abandon vs. constraint

abandon vs. artificial

abandon vs. freedom

abandon vs. abandoner

abandon vs. abandonee

abandon vs. abandonment

abandon vs. abandoned

aband vs. abandon

abandon vs. withsake

abandon vs. withdraw

abandon vs. retire

abandon vs. resign

abandon vs. renounce

abandon vs. quit

abandon vs. leave

abandon vs. forlet

abandon vs. forego

abandon vs. blin

abandon vs. cede

abandon vs. insurer

abandon vs. abdicate

abandon vs. relinquish

abandon vs. interest

abandon vs. exercise

abandon vs. reject

abandon vs. expel

abandon vs. title

abandon vs. right

abandon vs. yield

abandon vs. surrender

abandon vs. banish

abandon vs. forsake

abandon vs. desert

abandon vs. pound