aband
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Contraction of abandon.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded)
- (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce. [Attested only in the late 16th century.][1]
- (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake. [Attested only in the late 16th century.][1]
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- And Vortiger enforced the kingdom to aband. - Spenser
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References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 2:
