Definitions for abandon
əˈbæn dənaban·don

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

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1. • Discard
   • Leave
   • Unrestraint

British National Corpus

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   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. Gillian Giannetti:

   As they abandon this dirty pipe dream, Dominion and Duke should now pivot to investing more in energy efficiency, wind and solar -- that's how to provide jobs and a better future for all.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   He told you that radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from an ideology. He told you that 9/11 (the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States) led my country to abandon its ideals, particularly in the Middle East, the results of these misjudgments have been dire.

3. Celene Albano:

   It is often a last-minute consideration, so people take their pets without the right supplies or adequate plans which then creates big problems wherever they go. Or they abandon their animals which is even worse.

4. Brian Bailey:

   There just needs to be a pandemic response protocol, so that when this happens, they bring the ships in and get [ passengers and crew ] off the ships immediately and into quarantine, there needs to be some sort of agreement that we're not going to just abandon people.

5. Barack Obama:

   I find it ironic that people who are constantly citing the Constitution would suddenly read into the Constitution requirements, norms, procedures that are nowhere to be found in there. That's precisely the kind of interpretive approach that they have vehemently rejected and that they accuse liberals of engaging in all the time, well, you can't abandon your principles, if in fact these are your principles, simply for the sake of political expedience.

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