Definitions for abandon
əˈbæn dənaban·don

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. abandon, wantonness, unconstraintnoun

   the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry

   "she danced with abandon"

2. wildness, abandonverb

   a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

   "the wildness of his anger"

3. abandonverb

   forsake, leave behind

   "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"

4. abandon, give upverb

   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"

5. vacate, empty, abandonverb

   leave behind empty; move out of

   "You must vacate your office by tonight"

6. abandon, give upverb

   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"

7. abandon, forsake, desolate, desertverb

   leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

   "The mother deserted her children"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. To ABANDONverb

   Etymology: Fr. abandonner. Derived, according to Gilles Ménage, from the Italian abandonare, which signifies to forsake his colours; bandum [vexillum] deserere . Pasquier thinks it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to a proscription; in which sense we, at this day, mention the ban of the empire. Ban, in our own old dialect, signifies a curse; and to abandon, if considered as compounded between French and Saxon, is exactly equivalent to diris devovere.

   1. To give up, resign, or quit; often followed by the particle to.

   The passive gods behold the Greeks defile
   Their temples, and abandon to the spoil
   Their own abodes; we, feeble few, conspire
   To save a sinking town, involv’d in fire. John Dryden, Æneid.

   2. To desert.

   The princes using the passions of fearing evil, and desiring to escape, only to serve the rule of virtue, not to abandon one’s self, leapt to a rib of the ship. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   Then being alone,
   Left and abandon’d of his velvet friends,
   ’Tis right, quoth he; thus misery doth part
   The flux of company. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   What fate a wretched fugitive attends,
   Scorn’d by my foes, abandon’d by my friends. John Dryden, Æn. 2.

   3. To forsake, generally with a tendency to an ill sense.

   When he in presence came, to Guyon first
   He boldly spake, Sir knight, if knight thou be,
   Abandon this forestalled place at erst,
   For fear of further harm, I counsel thee. Edmund Spenser, Fairy Queen, b. ii. cant. 4. stanz. 39.

   But to the parting goddess thus she pray’d;
   Propitious still be present to my aid,
   Nor quite abandon your once favour’d maid. John Dryden, Fab.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abandon

   Abandon refers to the act of giving up or discontinuing something, or leaving a place, person, or thing, often without planning to come back. It may also refer to the complete lack of inhibition or restraint in one's actions or emotions.

2. abandon

   Abandon generally refers to the act of giving up or discontinuing interest in something or someone, leaving it without care or protection. It can also refer to a complete surrender to natural impulses without any restraint or control. This term can be used in different contexts such as legal, emotional, or physical.

3. abandon

   Abandon refers to the act of giving up or discontinuing something, particularly a responsibility, claim, possession, or commitment, usually permanently and completely. It can also refer to the act of leaving or desertifying someone or a place, often without intending to return. In a broader sense, it also can mean to yield or lose control to impulses, emotions, or influences.

4. abandon

   Abandon is a verb that means to leave something or someone behind without planning to return or claim it, often due to difficulty, danger or disinterest. It can also refer to giving up completely an action, effort, commitment, or course of action. In its noun form, it signifies a lack of inhibitions or control.

5. abandon

   Abandon refers to the act of giving up or discontinuing any further interest in something, or to leave or desert someone or something, especially when it involves neglecting responsibilities or obligations. In a more emotional context, it can also refer to a state of uninhibited and unrestrained behavior.

6. abandon

   Abandon refers to the act of giving up, leaving behind, or relinquishing something or someone completely. This can apply in many contexts such as abandonment of property, relationship, responsibility, or idea. It can also mean to surrender oneself fully to an emotion or influence.

7. abandon

   Abandon generally refers to the act of giving up or leaving something completely without intent to return or claim, often due to difficulty, danger, or disinterest. This can apply to a range of contexts, from leaving a physical location or object, to relinquishing pursuits or responsibilities, to disregarding inhibition or caution. It can also denote a complete surrender to emotions or an experience.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Abandonverb

   to cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject

2. Abandonverb

   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

3. Abandonverb

   reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense

4. Abandonverb

   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

5. Abandon

   abandonment; relinquishment

6. Abandonnoun

   a complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease

7. Etymology: [F. See Abandon.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Abandon

   Abandon is the sixteenth studio album by Deep Purple released in the Spring of 1998. It was Deep Purple's second album with Steve Morse on guitar and the last one with founding member Jon Lord. The album was followed by a successful 1998/1999 world tour which brought Deep Purple to Australia for the first time in 15 years. In 1999 a live album and DVD Total Abandon: Australia '99 recorded in Melbourne on 20 April 1999 was released. The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan – "A Band On" – and the album was followed by the "A Band On Tour". Uniquely for a Deep Purple studio album, it features a reworking of a previously recorded song -"Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock. "Don't Make Me Happy" was mistakenly mastered in mono, and not amended on the final release. One of the two versions of the song released on single was, however, mastered in stereo.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Abandon

   a-ban′dun, 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. [O. Fr. bandon, from the Teut. root ban, proclamation, came to mean decree, authorisation, permission; hence à bandon—at will or discretion, abandonner, to give up to the will or disposal of some one. See Ban, Banns.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abandon

   In a military sense, used in the relinquishment of a military post, district, or station, or the breaking up of a military establishment. To abandon any fort, post, guard, arms, ammunition, or colors without good cause is punishable.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ABANDON

   to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever: We had to abandon the car. By the time the rebel troops arrived, the village had already been abandoned. As a baby he was abandoned by his mother. We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.

   
   

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1. abandon

   Song lyrics by abandon -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by abandon on the Lyrics.com website.

2. Abandon

   Abandon vs. Abandoned -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Abandon and Abandoned.

Matched Categories

1. • Discard
   • Leave
   • Unrestraint

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'abandon' in Verbs Frequency: #440

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of abandon in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of abandon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of abandon in a Sentence

1. Bruno Le Maire:

   With the economy operating at 99% of (pre-crisis) capacity, we have to get out of ‘whatever it costs’. That does not mean we are going to abandon companies that are still struggling.

2. Harriet Van Horne:

   Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

3. Jack McCain:

   Donald Trump has to understand he's running to be the commander in chief of the United States military, when you're doing so, if an individual gets rolled up and becomes a prisoner of war, then is he going to abandon them simply because he doesn't like people who are captured? I think that's a pretty inflammatory statement for somebody who is trying to be the commander-in-chief of the United States military.

4. Antony Blinken:

   Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak.

5. Jose Montelongo:

   Readers have access to the finished works but through the archive, you see a human side of the master artist. This is the side in which he rejects paragraphs and entire pages and has to rewrite, or abandon a path for a new one.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=abandon
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=abandon
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abandon
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=abandon
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=abandon
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html