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abandon
1. verb /əˈbændən/
a) To give up control of, to surrender.

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.

Syn: wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint

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