abandon

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French abandoner, formed from à + bandon (jurisdiction, control), from Mediaeval Latin bannum (proclamation), from Frankish *ban, from Proto-Germanic *bannan (proclaim, command) ( > English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bha- (to speak).

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Infinitive
to abandon

Third person singular
abandons

Simple past
abandoned

Past participle
abandoned

Present participle
abandoning

to abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)

  1. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender.
    • Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. — I. Taylor
  2. (transitive) To leave behind, to desert.
    Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing everyday.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
    • 1594: Being all this time abandoned from your bed. — Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, I-ii
  4. (transitive) To relinquish a claim to property to underwriters.

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From French abandon, from abondonner.

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Singular
abandon

Plural
abandons

abandon (plural abandons)

  1. A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
    • 1954: I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.' - w:Gore Vidal, Messiah
    • 2007 I am Legend (film) Akiva Goldsman, Mark Protosevich
      I am They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.

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Versions Anniversary, Pre-Anniversary: a - b - a - nd

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abandon m. (plural abandons)

  1. surrender
  2. abandonment
  3. (uncountable) complete neglect

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French abandon.

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abandon n.

  1. abandonment
  2. renouncement
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