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abandon Verb 1. to desert or leave: he had already abandoned his first wife 2. to give up completely: did you abandon all attempts at contact with the boy? 3. to give oneself over completely to an emotion Noun with abandon uninhibitedly and without restraint [Old French a bandon under one's control] abandonment n
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abandon verb 1. leave, strand, ditch, leave behind, walk out on, forsake, jilt, run out on, throw over, turn your back on, desert, dump, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch verb 2. stop, drop, give up, halt, cease, cut out, pack in Brit. (informal) discontinue, leave off, desist from << OPPOSITE continue verb 3. give up, resign from, yield, surrender, relinquish, renounce, waive, cede, forgo, abdicate << OPPOSITE keep noun 4. recklessness, dash, wildness, wantonness, unrestraint, careless freedom << OPPOSITE restraint >> abandon ship evacuate, quit, withdraw from, vacate, depart from << OPPOSITE maintain Translationsn → abandono (= wild behaviour): with abandon → con desenfreno; n → abandon m; (child) → aussetzen; (give up) → aufgeben n (wild behaviour); with abandon → selbstvergessen; n → abbandono; to abandon ship → abbandonare la nave |
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| Let us turn our backs upon duty and abandon ourselves to the delights and advantages which beckon from every grove and call to us from every shining hill. And certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs; and yet these men many times hold credit with their masters, because their study is but to please them, and profit themselves; and for either respect, they will abandon the good of their affairs. "My object," I went on, "is to entreat you to reconsider your letter, and not to force me to abandon the just rights of your niece, and of all who belong to her. |
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