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"

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

1. Abandonverb

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

   Etymology: [F. See Abandon.]

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

   Etymology: [F. See Abandon.]

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

   Etymology: [F. See Abandon.]

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

   Etymology: [F. See Abandon.]

5. Abandon

   abandonment; relinquishment

   Etymology: [F. See Abandon.]

6. Abandonnoun

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

   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.

   Submitted by rinat on January 11, 2021  

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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.

Matched Categories

1. • Discard
   • Leave
   • Unrestraint

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

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

How to pronounce abandon?

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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. Lammy Review recommendationsIn an interview:

   It's deeply, deeply shocking and concerning to find out that young people in our own country are being treated in this horrendous way, coronavirus is a challenge for the system, but it is not a call for democratic countries like our own to abandon norms we have fought hard for in this country. It's very, very disappointing and worrying that we're treating young people in this way.

2. Peter Meijer:

   If we break those promises, if we betray those and abandon those who served alongside us, people are going to remember that, not only those Afghans we betray, but also, in any potential future conflict, we are going to be looked at as a country that doesn’t keep our promises, that will cut and run, that will turn our backs on our allies, that will, frankly, be a country that can’t be trusted.I think that will be incredibly detrimental to our national security in the long term.

3. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:

   (That was) a grave diplomatic mistake. Exxon Mobil is behind all this, i hope... the Guyanese president can reflect and take the necessary steps for a process of dialogue and abandon grandiloquent discourse and stop listening to the bad, pernicious and wrong advice from Exxon Mobil and the officials it has bought.

4. Agata Ludwiczak:

   When deciding, we tend to concentrate on and base our decisions on rewards. When executing an action, we switch our attention to the effort required, if this effort is more than we anticipated, we might abandon the task, deciding it's not worth it.

5. Thomas Alva Edison:

   There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

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