(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(2) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
(3) Nevertheless the difference was too little to suggest abandoning one treatment in favour of the others.
(4) Histological examination showed that in many cases these terminal sprouts appeared to reinnervate abandoned junctional sites on adjacent denervated fibers.
(5) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
(6) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
(8) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(9) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
(10) But he criticised Clegg for forcing the government to abandon the data communications bill.
(11) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(12) Speaking for the first time since the Qatari royal family abandoned his plans to build 552 new homes on the site of Chelsea barracks, Rogers called for a national inquiry into whether the prince has a constitutional right to become involved in matters such as planning applications which have economic, political and social ramifications.
(13) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
(14) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(15) It is better to abandon the idea of a plasty when the tubal mucosa is in a bad condition.
(16) The Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, has abandoned plans to call for lower Scottish tax rates after learning that George Osborne is considering far deeper spending cuts.
(17) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
(18) We must abandon the opinion that the prestige of a surgical department rests in the number of beds.
(19) In addition, the first patient was given a peroral prophylaxis with dantrolene; in subsequent cases this route of administration was abandoned.
(20) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
Jettison
Definition:
(n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
(n.) See Jetsam, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(2) A "cornerstone" of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice.
(3) Ministers float ideas about measuring rates of family break-up, which they must know they can do almost nothing about, and then scramble to jettison those financial metrics over which they exert the most direct control.
(4) During the local election campaign Farage has also jettisoned, seemingly on his whim, longstanding policies such as a flat rate of tax.
(5) "The STOVL is unable to land vertically on to a carrier in hot, humid and low pressure weather conditions without having to jettison heavy loads.
(6) However, during the past decade Paltrow appears to have decided to jettison her career and become a full-time spouter of nonsense about food , exercise and her own inner journey , all detailed on her website, Goop.
(7) He had been forced to jettison the entire consignment without compensation from his dealers.
(8) NBC dropped Miss Universe when the broadcaster jettisoned The Apprentice last month due to “derogatory statements” by Trump regarding immigrants.
(9) It's clearly not in the interests of ideologues who want to jettison the welfare state to help educate the public about its real value.
(10) The plan was for the plane to spray the sarin over a target site, but because of a malfunction, each tank still contained 90 gallons of sarin when they were jettisoned in an isolated area of the site at 8.29am.
(11) Many Conservatives have become increasingly concerned that in the government’s helter-skelter pursuit of the referendum, they have been jettisoning or watering down key elements of their legislative programme.
(12) It is one that Blatter will calibrate according to whether sticking with the tiny Gulf state, contending with temperatures of 50C-plus (122F) in the summer, and pressure over its treatment of migrant workers, is more trouble than jettisoning it.
(13) You Adebolajo sprinted towards the officers jettisoning the knife and carrying the cleaver above your head as if intent on attacking one or more of them, while you Adebowale went down the adjacent pavement and pointed the gun at the officers.
(14) As a result of his recalcitrance, Nkunda was jettisoned and replaced at the negotiating table by another CNDP leader, Bosco Ntaganda.
(15) The two short term goals for Osborne were to remain loyal to his manifesto but also jettison those nonsensical parts of the manifesto that he had never intended to deliver, but had merely inserted to wrongfoot Labour or abandon in a negotiation with his expected Lib Dem partners.
(16) Channel 4 is also cutting up to £75m from its £600m programme budget this year, while Five has jettisoned stars, including Trisha Goddard, to make savings.
(17) A further claim is that Crosby, whose company in Australia represents drinks industry interests, improperly influenced the British government to jettison a minimum unit price for alcohol.
(18) Giving money to any charity is an inherently political act – you say, for example, that you jettisoned the RSPCA when their focus switched to foxhunting.
(19) Shadow cabinet ministers were reported to be debating whether to jettison the Osborne deficit straitjacket and promise an extensive programme of investment in housing and public services.
(20) There are no indications that Mike D'Antoni's job is in jeopardy, but after seeing how quickly the Lakers organization jettisoned his predecessor, he can't feel too secure either.