Abandoning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABANDONING in dictionary:

VERB:
• ABANDON, 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)
NOUN:
• complete lack of inhibition or restraint

Words related to ABANDONING

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How to use ABANDONING in a sentence

• The Portuguese captured this city in 1508, voluntarily abandoning it in 1641.
• But there would have been not a thought of abandoning the work.
• A disposition of that nature is always contagious, men abandoning a failing cause much as rats are known to quit a sinking ship.
• Just then he was merely revolving the situation in his mind, and trying to see some way of escaping from it, without abandoning his friend.
• Living on land, he would be abandoning this vengeance, though remembering his son with even greater intensity.
• While the House was abandoning itself to reckless mischief-making, Washington was striving to arrange matters by negotiation.
• Even Winchelsea saw the wisdom of abandoning his too heroic attitude.
• Instead of abandoning the two Republics to their sad fate, they were determined to support them with all the energy and power at their command.
• She meant to ride only about four of them before abandoning her mule for the detour on foot.
• Once or twice Jack suggested going to one of the innumerable suburbs or abandoning the city altogether for some small country place, as other artists had done.
• The Rebel Government censured General Beauregard for abandoning Corinth.
• Scarcely had the shrill cry ceased to echo in the hills when the Indians and the British, abandoning their dead, moved rapidly across the river.
• He had conceived the brilliant idea of abandoning Portsmouth, or at least giving up the straight way to his fellow-wayfarers, and of striking out boldly to the left, eastward.
• Wardor wanted him to have his breakfast downstairs in her kitchen, but that would have meant abandoning the watch, and he held out strongly.
• Justinian frightened these in the same manner into abandoning their salaries to him.
• His mother drew a long breath, and, abandoning the visit to Thomasin, turned back.
• Romney village came at length in sight, lonely and deserted amid the mountain snows, for the Federal garrison had vanished, abandoning its camp-equipment and its magazines.
• Finally, after abandoning the idea that mechanical means can possibly have produced the effect, Mr.
• When he had nearly completed his studies for the bar, he was again upon the point of abandoning the laborious career of a lawyer for a life of obscurity and ease.
• There may be a sort of seeking for the word, which seeks in the wrong places and in the wrong ways, and without abandoning sins.
• Incontinently, the little man ran back through the dining-room and down the private hall, abandoning every effort to avoid a noise.
• Captain Hoppner and the other officers were therefore of opinion, that an absolute necessity existed for abandoning the Fury.

Similar words containing ABANDON without suffix ing

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