Definition of abandon

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Abandon (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.

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Dereliction :: Dereliction (n.) The state of being left or abandoned.
Abandon :: Abandon (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.
Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate..
Waste :: Waste (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse..
Reprobate :: Reprobate (n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment..
Carcass :: Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing..
Desert :: Desert (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors..
Leave :: Leave (v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish..
Backslide :: Backslide (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Let :: Let (v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
Abandoned :: Abandoned (a.) Forsaken, deserted..
Abandonee :: Abandonee (n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
Desert :: Desert (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country..
Waive :: Waive (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
Abandoned :: Abandoned (a.) Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain..
Abandon :: Abandon (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
Abandon :: Abandon (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..
Departure :: Departure (n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose..
Derelict :: Derelict (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea..
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