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      • to leave a person, living creature, or thing to the care of someone or something; to give up someone or something to someone or something.
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  1. to leave a person, living creature, or thing to the care of someone or something; to give up someone or something to someone or something. (Usually with the thought that the abandoned person or thing will not receive the best of care.) They had to abandon the dogs to the storm.

  2. If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. 2. If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished.

  3. If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. 2. If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished.

  4. To abandon something is to give it up completely. If you’re in a cabin and a forest fire approaches, you’d better get in your car and abandon your cabin, or else be prepared to abandon your life. If you abandon something, you let it go, so when you describe someone as "acting with abandon," it means they have let go of restrictions or ...

  5. to give up (something) completely or forever. to abandon all hope. 2. to leave, as in danger or out of necessity; forsake; desert. 3. to yield (oneself) completely, as to a feeling, desire, etc. noun. 4. unrestrained freedom of action or emotion; surrender to one's impulses.

  6. "With abandon" can mean lots of things because of the ways this definition can be used figuratively. Often "with abandon" is used to indicate a reckless effort or a far-reaching, unrestricted effort. Share

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  8. ABANDON definition: 1. to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever: 2. to stop doing an activity before you…. Learn more.

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