Word Finder - abandon

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To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.

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To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.

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To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.

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Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.

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To subdue; to take control of.

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To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.

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To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

She couldn't abandon her babies to him, even if he was their father.

Arrived in the river Plate in 1527, rumours reached Cabot of mineral wealth and a rich and civilized empire in the far interior, and he resolved to abandon surveying for exploration.

She knew she needed to leave him but couldn't find it in her to abandon the only place she'd ever felt safe.

He'll have to abandon it, if Annie Quincy really is—one of those girls.

We have paid for the right to look at the matter plainly and simply, and we will not abandon that right.

Wouldn't it be foolish to abandon the carefully laid plans that had helped her achieve her goals in the first place?

He wished to God she would abandon her search.

The captain gave the order to abandon ship as the water flooded the lower decks.

Maximilian did not, however, abandon the struggle in the Netherlands.

Still I could not shut my eyes to the force and weight of their arguments, and I saw plainly that I must abandon--'s scheme as impracticable.

Our challenge is to learn how to choose the plowshares, not to abandon metallurgy.

He wasn't going to abandon her, too, was he?

She wiped her face, determined not to abandon her sister as Gio had.

Either his words or his soothing voice caused the woman to abandon what little self-control she possessed; she threw her arms around him, sobbing.

While Cynthia skipping with Jeffrey was next to impossible for Dean to buy, no one could convince him she would abandon her son.

But that doesn't mean I have to abandon them.

She felt this to be their last hope and that if Nicholas refused the match she had found for him, she would have to abandon the hope of ever getting matters right.

Rhyn snorted and faced Sasha, the brother charged with governing Australia, and the first to abandon the Council in favor of serving the Dark One.

If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

Not wanting to abandon Lori, she did nothing.

The smart thing to do would be to abandon Brutus for the safety of the barn.

They decided to abandon the siege of Warwick Castle on hearing news of the approach of the parliamentary relief force.

The general decided to abandon what he saw as old ideas, such as using tanks to seize territory.

The Russians retreat and abandon their ancient capital.

The king of Naples was his natural enemy, and he had cause to suspect that Piero de Medici might abandon his alliance.

The consequence of these reports of the hostility of the church led him to abandon all thoughts of publishing.

He was forced to abandon all attempts at reconquest, but proposed to decide the question by single combat between himself and Peter, to take place at Bordeaux under English protection.

He did not abandon his opinions.

To acknowledge the fact is to abandon all hope.

But am I really to abandon forever the joy of Prince Andrew's love, in which I have lived so long?

The ancient British and Celtic churches followed the cycle of 84 years which they had originally received from Rome, and their stubborn refusal to abandon it caused much bitter controversy in the 8th century between their representatives and St Augustine of Canterbury and the Latin missionaries.

She wasn't going to abandon them to her father so she could enjoy herself.

You didn't abandon Destiny.

Nice of Kris to abandon you upstairs like that.

This has been due to speculation, to the unrestricted pasturage of goats, to the rights which many communes have over the forests, and to some extent to excessive taxation, which led the proprietors to cut and sell the trees and then abandon the ground to the Treasury.

Dost Mahommed was enjoined to abandon the attempt to recover Peshawar, and to place his foreign policy under British guidance.

She couldn't abandon them to him, even if he was their father.

She couldn't abandon the twins – leave them with a man who had become a stranger to them.

Entrepreneurs tend to fall in love with their original ideas, and in this phase, they may need to alter or even abandon them.

Having, however, espoused the cause of the Royalist party on the breaking out of the American War of Independence, he found it expedient to abandon his professional prospects in the New World, and return to his native country.

In 1776 he was called to the bar, intending at first to establish himself as an advocate in his native town, a scheme which his early success led him to abandon, and he soon settled to the practice of his profession in London, and on the northern circuit.

He sent to Syria, Assemanus, a Maronite educated at the Roman college of Gregory XIII.; and at last, at a council held at the monastery of Lowaizi on the 30th of September 1736, the Maronite Church accepted from Rome a constitution which is still in force, and agreed to abandon some of its more incongruous usages such as mixed convents of monks and nuns.

They in turn petitioned the crown to abandon the Spanish alliance, which they regarded as the source of all the mischief.

In the state the Tory inherited the ideas of Clarendon, and, without being at all ready to abandon the claims of parliaments, nevertheless somewhat inconsistently spoke of the king as ruling by a divine and indefeasible title, and wielding a power which it was both impious and unconstitutional to resist by force.

But so thoroughly was the spirit of the country roused, that many even of the new corporations were set against Jamess declaration, and he had therefore to abandon for a time the hope of seeing it accepted even by a packed House of Commons.

It was known that even before the last battle Louis had been ready to abandon the cause of his grandson, and that his offers had been rejected because he would not consent to join the allies in turning him out of Spain.

Though the French attempt at a concerted invasion had failed, however, the Directory did not abandon the enterprise, and commissioned Bonaparte to draw up fresh plans.

The Chartists were induced to abandon the procession which had caused so much alarm, and the monster petition was carried in a cab to the House of Commons.

Rhodes himself was not removed from the privy council, as his more extreme accusers demanded; but he had to abandon his career in Cape politics for a time, and confine his energies to the development of Rhodesia, which had been added to the empire through his instrumentality in 1888-1889.

In 1866 his life became clouded by the circumstances which led him to abandon the institution so long the scene of his labours.