1. verb /əˈbændən/
Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned.
b) To leave behind, to desert.
Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing everyday.
Syn: abdicate, cede, desert, forego, forsake, give up, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, retire, surrender, withdraw, yield
See Also: abandonment, abandonware
2. noun /əˈbændən/
A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.
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