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Abandon
ABAN'DON, v.t. [Fr. abandonner; Sp. and Port. abandonar; It. abbandonare; said to be from ban, and donner, to give over to the ban or proscription; or from a or ab and bandum, a flag or ensign.]
1. To forsake entirely; as to abandon a hopeless enterprize.
Wo to that generation by which the testimony of God shall be abandoned.
2. To renounce and forsake; to leave with a view never to return; to desert as lost or desperate; as to abandon a country; to abandon a cause or party.
3. To give up or resign without control, as when a person yields himself, without restraint, to a propensity; as to abandon one's self to intemperance. Abandoned over and abandoned of are obsolete.
4. To resign; to yield, relinquish, or give over entirely.
Verus abandoned the cares of empire to his wiser colleague.
5. In commerce, to relinquish to insurers all claim to a ship or goods insured, as a preliminary towards recovering for a total loss.
ABAN'DON, n. One who totally forsakes or deserts.
2. A relinquishment. [not used.]
abandon appears in definitions for these words:
Abandon Abandoner Abandoning Abandonment Abdicate Abdicated Abdicating Abdication Abjuration Abjure All-abandoned Apostasy Apostate Apostatize Apostatizing Aside Break Castaway Conviction Defection Deliver Depart Departure Derelict Dereliction Desert Deserted Deserting Desertion Despond Difficult Dragoon Dragoonade Dragooned Dragooning Drive Escheat Exile Expatriating Fall Fling Forsake Forsaken Give Indisposition Influence Irrecoverably Leather-seller Lorel Nonsuiting Perdu Persevere Phlogiston Plow Prejudice Profligacy Profligate Profligateness Pseudo-tinea Quit Reform Relinquish Reprobate Reprobated Reprobating Reprobation Reprobationer Resolve Stable Vacant
Abandon Abandoner Abandoning Abandonment Abdicate Abdicated Abdicating Abdication Abjuration Abjure All-abandoned Apostasy Apostate Apostatize Apostatizing Aside Break Castaway Conviction Defection Deliver Depart Departure Derelict Dereliction Desert Deserted Deserting Desertion Despond Difficult Dragoon Dragoonade Dragooned Dragooning Drive Escheat Exile Expatriating Fall Fling Forsake Forsaken Give Indisposition Influence Irrecoverably Leather-seller Lorel Nonsuiting Perdu Persevere Phlogiston Plow Prejudice Profligacy Profligate Profligateness Pseudo-tinea Quit Reform Relinquish Reprobate Reprobated Reprobating Reprobation Reprobationer Resolve Stable Vacant
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