abandoning
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English [edit]
Verb [edit]
abandoning
- Present participle of abandon.
- Many have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. (progressive)
- Their abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. (gerund)
- An abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. (participial adjective)
Noun [edit]
abandoning (plural abandonings)
- An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect
- 1842, Richard Oastler, The Fleet Papers, volume 2, page 306:
- Their sensuality— […] —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— […] may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.
- 1985, Annette Baier, “Frankena and Hume on Points of View”, in Postures of the Mind, ISBN 0816613265, page 174:
- I […] owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.
- 2003, Susan Peterson, The Craft and Art of Clay, edition 4th ed., ISBN 1856693546, page 315:
- We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.
- 1842, Richard Oastler, The Fleet Papers, volume 2, page 306:
