Abandon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABANDON in dictionary:

VERB:
• to leave or give up completely
• leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, without intending to return
• condemn someone or something to (a specified fate) by ceasing to take an interest in them
• discontinue (a scheduled event) before completion
• cease to support or look after (someone); desert
• give up completely (a practice or a course of action)
• allow oneself to indulge in (a desire or impulse)
• complete lack of inhibition or restraint
• desert or leave
• To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
• To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
• Reflexively: To give (one\'s self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one\'s self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
• To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
• Abandonment; relinquishment.
• forsake, leave behind
• give up with the intent of never claiming again
• leave behind empty; move out of
• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
NOUN:
• A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
• the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry
• a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
• lack of inhibition

Words related to ABANDON

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Words that contain ABANDON

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How to use ABANDON in a sentence

• Without the arts of lying and acting, we might as well abandon our profession.
• The unhappy Britons had a third time recourse to Rome, which had declared its resolution for ever to abandon them.
• Peter had, however, the subject too much at heart to abandon it, just as he had broken the ice.
• For my own part, I think you had better abandon the search altogether.
• Leicester was overpowered by his assumed superiority it seemed to the unfortunate Earl as if his last friend was about to abandon him.
• The storms of winter were now at hand, and both parties were compelled to abandon the field until spring.
• What kind of a reputation should I have if I should abandon the first enterprise of my reign? No! I will sooner be crushed with my whole army, than renounce my rights in Silesia.
• For if you still should refuse to submit yourself to us, we shall abandon you.
• It was resolved in these circumstances to abandon the mission to Holy Land as impracticable for the moment, and to remain in Venice waiting for more favorable opportunities.
• We expect, therefore, from the friendship of the Emperor, that he will either compel Spain to do us justice, or abandon her to us.
• It is true, the time will come when we must abandon it.
• This circumstance induced Newton and his most devoted followers to abandon the reserve which they had hitherto considered it their duty to maintain.
• On the advance of the French army under Napoleon into Prussia, he determined to leave Wittenberg and abandon his university career.
• He had a very brilliant career in prospect, apparently, but through some sad freak of fate lost his money and was obliged to abandon it.
• Sir Robert Sale refused, when summoned, to abandon his post, and he was consequently besieged by the enemy.
• The government encouraged various medical men of eminence to abandon their professional prospects in London and go to the East.
• The nations of the world must concur with each other concerning this supremely important subject, so that they may abandon together the deadly weapons of human slaughter.
• At first, I was sure that Captain Coke would abandon his wicked project as soon as he discovered that I knew what was in his mind.
• Easter after his appointment, and although the Committee did not entertain it then he did not abandon it, and the subject was raised in the press and in Committee in 1885.
• But refusing to abandon hope, His Highness had pinned his last fluttering rag of faith upon the chance that our car would fail to fulfil its contract.
• There was no less abandon than religion in our embrace.
• I urged him, on several occasions, to abandon the practice.
• The forms adopted by Washington had the grave and simple dignity which marked all he did, and it was senseless to abandon what his faultless taste and patriotic feeling approved.
• Could these amateur artists once see how the Japanese do this thing, they would abandon their mosses and pebbles in despair.
• Able statesmen and influential journalists advised the President to abandon the attempt.
• If she could have written, she would have done so days before in such a fashion as to cause him almost certainly to abandon his intention of seeing her.
• Douglas was not yet ready to abandon the high national ground of supreme, Federal control over the Territories.
• Will Phelps advanced as if he was about to open the door, but a silent gesture from Hawley caused him to abandon the project.

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